Mary Freudie Baby Mim Case

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I agree with the final verdict of the Supreme Court of New Jersey. Mary Beth Whitehead owns rights to her reproduction capacity and her biological daughter. The Baby M case, to some extent, is an arbitrary deprivation of human rights, intertwining with immoral conducts by both parties. This perspective is about to be corroborated from two main points. First, certain rights of human beings are not allowed to be deprived in whatever ways, specifically in this case, purchasing behavior. Second of all, Mary Beth, out of the instinct of maternal nature, acted immorally and betrayed certain aspects of the disciplines of human behaviors. That is, the good intention cannot justify an immoral conduct. From these two arguments, we are going to build

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