Attorney takes her place in reproduction (Alex Davis)

Recently in San Diego, California there has been a woman named Theresa Erickson, who is an Attorney. She was an advocate for helping childless couples adopt babies. She had created a business from it, and was famous for her job. She also wrote a book named "assisted reproduction," and she is in the process of expanding her business. The problem with her expanding her business is that she was doing it illegally. She was planning to pay surrogates to carry embryos to carry the babies, and that way they could be placed with couples across the country. This would be considered shopping for babies and against the laws of surrogacy. The point of surrogacy is for chosen parents to have another person carry their child. Erickson ended up pleading guilty, expecting that she would only be sentenced to five years in prison. Now her attorney is upset at the fact the media is calling it "baby selling" and not wire fraud. Because of the negative connotations by the media, Erickson's camp feels that now she is at an unfair disadvantage when it comes to the sentencing. On the flip side prosecutors used a value claim stating that she is trying to help single mothers. Erickson herself states that she is doing the right thing for everyone involved in the situation. Now Erickson is saying that she is involved in law and it's necessary. Many fact claims were made in the article about couples not being able to reproduce children, and this seemed like the most appropriate way for them to have children. For the parents it is a shame that they were involved with such a scandal, but in the end all they wanted was a family. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-baby-selling-20120224,0,3910263.story (Alex Davis)