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Jennifer Lahl, president of the Center for Bioethics and Culture, testifies in favor of a bill before the Kansas Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee to make it a crime to compensate women to serve as surrogate mothers, Monday, Jan. 27, 2014, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Lahl says surrogacy lessens the dignity of women and children. (AP Photo/John Hanna)
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Andrew Marske, left, and his wife, Kelsey, hold their 6-week-old twins, Arthur and Augusta, as the Kansas Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee considers a bill voiding surrogate mother contracts, Monday, Jan. 27, 2014, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. A friend carried and gave birth to their twins for them. (AP Photo/John Hanna)
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Adriana Escandon, leftr, a coordinator with the New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE), distribute work site safety packs to a group of day laborers on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013 in Queens, N.Y. NICE provide services for day laborers and the undocumented, including OSHA training, english language classes and legal advice. "Labor laws in this country make it possible that alll these workers have the same rights, regardless of immigration status," said Escandon. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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Senate minority leader Gene Davis, D-Salt Lake, looks on during Senate leadership news conference Monday, Jan. 27, 2014, in Salt Lake City. Utah lawmakers have returned to the state Capitol for their annual legislative session, a five-week whirlwind that's one of the shortest in the country. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio testifies before a joint legislative budget hearing on Monday, Jan. 27, 2014, in Albany, N.Y. Mayor deBlasio is urging state lawmakers to support his proposed tax hike on wealthy city residents to pay for universal prekindergarten. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
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FILE - In this July 30, 2013 file photo, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, left, accompanied by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. On Monday, Hatch, Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla. and Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C. proposed repealing the nation’s controversial health care law in favor of a replacement that eliminates most of the government coverage mandates it imposed and offers tax breaks to help the lower-income obtain coverage. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
