Angel for Hire Trailer (2011)

Trailer for the documentary Angel for Hire.

If you are hired to bear a baby for someone else and something goes wrong, who's in charge? Angel For Hire explores the implications of signing away one's bodily rights to bear a stranger's child. As Angel, a surrogate mother, nears the end of her pregnancy, a complication emerges. Angel faces the possibility of a contract-mandated cesarean section against her wishes. Also unfolding in Angel For Hire is the story of a pioneering Michigan-based attorney, Noel Keane. Keane wrote the first surrogacy contract in 1976, a time when the concept of a 'surrogate mother' seemed outrageous. That contract launched Keane's controversial career as the most visible middle man in surrogate parenting, an industry that to this day relies primarily on contracts for regulation.