I don’t know who this lawyer is stated this; but the mother does have rights.
“The mother does have rights.” Yet aren’t there all ready harvested eggs for sale which could be mixed with the sperm of the purchaser and placed into a non-biological mother to develop? A non-bio mother would certainly not have rights over a bio-father, and a woman who sold the rights to her eggs would probably never know they were used. Makes the world a scary place for children of such unions to find a opposite sex spouse to have children with.