Senate strikes discriminatory language from Utah surrogacy law

The Utah Legislature is a single vote away from striking unconstitutionally discriminatory language from a state law that purports to bar married gay male couples from using a surrogate to have a child.Rep. Patrice Arent’s HB234 is a fairly simple “housekeeping” bill which updates state law governing surrogacy contracts to comply with a recent unanimous opinion by the Utah Supreme Court. Last August, the justices ruled one portion of the law unconstitutional under the 14th Amen