MAKING MONEY BY MAKING BABIES

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 92 (4) ◽  
pp. 599-599
Author(s):  
J. F. L.
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Artificial Insemination ◽  
State Legislatures ◽  
Single Women ◽  
The State ◽  
State Health ◽  
Surrogate Mothers ◽  
New Business

The State of New York may be eager to attract new business, but there's one kind of inflow it would do well to avoid. According to state health officials, New York is fast becoming "the surrogate-parenting capital of the nation." New York accounts for some 40 percent of the several thousand surrogate parenting contracts signed so far in the nation, and the number is rising ... At least 17 state legislatures have decided it's harmful commerce, and forbidden it. So have Germany, France, Britain and a slew of other countries. But not New York . . . That's why advertisements like this one appear in New York newspapers: Married or single women with children needed as surrogate mothers for couples unable to have children. Conception to be by artificial insemination. Please state your fee. Contact ... For those who want children, infertility can be a tragedy. Allowing this kind of commerce, however, would be a greater one.

scholarly journals On the Distributional Outcomes of Policy-Induced Entrepreneurial Opportunities

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hal Wesley Snarr ◽  
Dan Friesner
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Manufacturing Firms ◽  
The State ◽  
Tax Rates ◽  
Start Up ◽  
New Business ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Publicly Supported ◽  
Start Ups ◽  
Positive Effect

This analysis empirically evaluates the effectiveness of entrepreneurial policies using the number and distribution of firms as outcome variables.  The analysis occurs within the context of a natural experiment: the START-UP NY program. Implemented in 2014, START-UP NY created enterprise development zones adjacent to publicly supported universities (i.e., SUNY and CUNY campuses) within the state. New business start-ups operating within these zones, and within a specific set of technology and health-related industries received tax incentives that substantially lowered tax rates for a 5-10 year period. In 2016, the State of New York substantially altered its corporate tax structure; a policy initiative affecting firms, business owners, and households in the state simultaneously, and may also induce entrepreneurship. The results suggest that START-UP NY had a positive effect on the growth of New York's micro and small-sized firms operating in professional, scientific, and technical industries. START-UP NY also negatively affected micro-sized manufacturing firms, while positively affecting small manufacturing firms. The latter finding suggests that START-UP NY is effective in incubating micro-sized manufacturing firms that eventually grow into small manufacturing firms.

Bad “Bad Baby” Bills

1994 ◽  
Vol 20 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 129-145
Author(s):  
Maxwell J. Mehlman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
North Carolina ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Medical Malpractice ◽  
State Legislatures ◽  
The State ◽  
Workers Compensation ◽  
Legislative Action ◽  
Lobbying Effort ◽  
Tort System

In the twenty-year-long debate over medical malpractice reform, obstetrics is unique. No other area of specialty medical practice has managed to argue successfully that its malpractice victims should be singled out and barred from obtaining relief through the tort system. Yet, following a well-organized lobbying effort by OB/GYNs, the state legislatures in Virginia and Florida have enacted so-called “bad baby bills” that create workers-compensation-type programs for victims of birth-related injuries. Such statutes provide the exclusive remedy for this and only this class of plaintiffs. Other states are considering following suit: bills have been introduced in North Carolina, Illinois and New York.What justifies this extraordinary legislative action? Proponents of the reforms admit that the effect of these statutes is to reduce the malpractice burden on OB/GYNs. But they are careful to portray patients rather than physicians as the primary beneficiaries of their efforts.

State Legislative Reorganization

1946 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 510-521
Author(s):  
John A. Perkins
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Local Government ◽  
State Legislatures ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
State And Local Government ◽  
State And Local ◽  
To Come ◽  
Modern Services

While much attention has been given to the efforts of Congress to improve itself, the activities of the state legislatures which have sought improvements as diligently, incidentally fulfilling their laboratory function, have gone virtually unnoticed. Twenty-eight states have given consideration to the renovation of the law-making branch. Comprehensive studies were made in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and in a more limited manner in California. New York, currently intent on modernizing its legislature, has already issued an interim report on expenditures and personnel, although the complete recommendations of its Joint Legislative Committee are yet to come. Committees whose frame of reference limits them to “tinkering” rather than “overhauling” are at work in Michigan and Colorado, with no reports yet submitted. In Alabama, an interim committee called for limited changes. The Bureau of Research established by the Indiana General Assembly in 1945 is authorized, among other things, to conduct research into improved methods of legislation.The crucial position of the state legislatures in our scheme of government cannot be over-emphasized. The failure to make themselves truly representative by periodic reapportionment and to streamline their organization and procedure, not to mention corruption among personnel, has resulted in an inability and unwillingness to rise to their responsibilities. Political collusion between rural legislators and their henchmen in local government has thwarted unification of multitudinous jurisdictions and the modernization of local administration. When depression-born demands for modern services were not met by state and local government, the federal government of necessity undertook new functions, causing centralization of government in the United States amid condemnation by the same state lawmakers whose inaction clipped democracy short at the grass roots.

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