They knew that a society could never be truly progressive if women do not equal legal and voting rights, and fill rights over their own bodies, including birth control and abortion.

Under a law on children's rights dating from 1998, a man can become the legal father of a child as long as the mother gives her permission and there is no record of a birth father.

This is called gestational surrogacy and is favored because in some states it gives the carrier no legal rights to the child she gives birth to.