Posts Tagged ‘third party reproduction’

India raises marriage barrier to gay surrogacy

Tuesday, January 15th, 2013

Changes to India’s surrogacy laws making it mandatory for people seeking surrogate mothers to be married have prompted surrogacy advocates back home to call for changes to allow commercial surrogacy in Australia.

The Indian Government has decreed that only couples who have been married for more than two years can enter into commercial surrogacy arrangements, and only if it is legal in their home country.

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D.C. Legislator Wants to Legalize Surrogacy Agreements

Thursday, January 10th, 2013

Here’s something you might not know: D.C. is one of the few places in the country that criminalizes surrogacy agreements, the practice by which a person or couple that cannot produce a child of their own via traditional means work with a woman who can.
Today D.C. Councilmember David Catania (I-At Large) introduced legislation that would legalize those agreements, allowing for couples to enter into them without the fear of the existing $10,000 fine or possible year in jail.

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Norway: The Nanny Who Was a Princess: How a Kindness Turned Controversial

Sunday, December 9th, 2012

Norway: While loyal subjects in Britain celebrated a royal pregnancy, across the North Sea, in Norway, a very different kind of crown princess was being celebrated for her own brush with uterine politics. Princess Mette-Marit’s trip to India, posing as a nanny to care for the newborn surrogate twins of a gay courtier and his husband, has landed her in a very Norwegian royal row involving birth, morality, exploitation and what it means to be a parent.

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Elizabeth Banks Welcomes Second Child Via Surrogacy!

Thursday, November 15th, 2012

The Pitch Perfect star and her husband of nine years, Max Handelman, welcomed their second child recently via surrogate, Banks announced on her website Nov. 14.
As 2012 winds down and Thanksgiving approaches, I have much for which to be thankful — personal, professional and Presidential,” Banks, 38, writes. “However, nothing can match the joy and excitement my husband and I felt when we recently welcomed our second baby boy, Magnus Mitchell Handelman.

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New Jersey: Court’s Split Decision Provides Little Clarity on Surrogacy

Thursday, October 25th, 2012

Unable to conceive, the New Jersey couple did what an increasing number of 21st-century parents have done: they got an egg from an anonymous donor, and made an agreement with another woman to carry the child for them.And knowing that there are any number of ways that having a child by surrogate can end in heartache, they tried to protect against it. They had the surrogate legally renounce her right to the child, and had a judge pre-emptively order that their names appear on the birth certificate.

But for all their efforts, their case has become an object lesson in how much modern babymaking has outpaced the law, leaving even the most careful would-be parents relying on little more than crossed fingers.

On Wednesday the New Jersey Supreme Court deadlocked over how to handle the wife’s plea to be named the mother of the child that she and her husband are raising, ending a lengthy legal battle while providing little new clarity. The state had sued, successfully, to strip the wife’s name from the birth certificate.
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Texas Couple Auctioning Football Card to Pay for IVF

Wednesday, October 17th, 2012

A Texas couple hope the auction of a one-of-a-kind football card will fund a final attempt at in vitro fertilization, a goal that the NFL Hall of Famer on the card fully supports.

Todd and Ula Nelkin of Houston have been trying to have a baby for several years. When they were unable to conceive naturally, they turned to IVF, but suffered two failed attempts.

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NY Men Having Babies Surrogacy Seminar and Expo is scheduled for September 22, 2012!

Wednesday, September 5th, 2012

New York, NY (PRWEB) September 05, 2012

Men Having Babies, Inc., a New York based nonprofit organization, is hosting the eight annual NY Surrogacy Seminar and Expo on September 22, 2012. Signifying the steady increase in interest in this parenting option, the all day event is going to be the largest and most extensive program to date dedicated exclusively for gay prospective surrogacy parents.

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Senate bill would expand fertility coverage for veterans

Thursday, August 23rd, 2012

The Senate is considering a bill that would expand medical benefits for severely injured service members so that they and their spouses or surrogates can have children through in vitro fertilization.
The Department of Veterans Affairs now covers a range of medical treatment for veterans, including some infertility care, but the legislation specifically authorizes the agency to cover IVF and to pay for procedures now provided for some critically injured active-duty soldiers.

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Sisters share the gift of surrogacy

Tuesday, August 21st, 2012

On a quiet family camping trip along Minnesota’s Rum River, surrogacy might seem like odd topic to come up. Five years later, sisters Kari Thorp of Andover and Tara Bladow of Battle Lake, Minn., can’t seem to remember who brought up the idea.

Tara Bladow, right, carried baby Gavin for her sister, Kari Thorp, who had a hysterectomy during high school.

Five years later, sisters Kari Thorp of Andover and Tara Bladow of Battle Lake, Minn., can’t seem to remember who brought up the idea. But without a second thought, two sisters pressed forward through a miraculous journey some might call the most beautiful gift a sister could give.

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IVF Mom donates eggs to help others

Thursday, July 12th, 2012

‘I kept thinking, there’s a couple out there whose lives I could change’
Suzanne and Mark Harper couldn’t conceive, so they turned to IVF. Their daughter, Libby, was born after eight cyles. During the treatment, Suzanne decided to donate her eggs to help others.

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