Maisie and Ella have two moms and a dad. The father was a sperm donor for the female couple, and state law allowed him to be a third parent. As families change, laws in some places are changing, too.
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The Laws They Are A-Changing…How Can You Protect Yourself?
The news concerning third party reproductive arrangements has been alarming these past few months. Dozens of Israeli same sex couples were stuck in Thailand with their babies born through gestational surrogacy, due to a Thai law holding …
Transgender People Are Having Kids All Kinds of Ways; Doctors Need to Get Used to It
As more of the estimated 700,000 transgender people in the United States explore new ways to make families, we’re likely to see even more mixes of reproductive parts and social and gender identities of people and their partners—never mind the sperm, eggs, or wombs contributed by third parties.
Babies Born From Donor Sperm Still Big Business
With more than 300 sperm banks expected to rake in a third of $1 billion this year, sperm donation births are a big business in the United States. ABC News learned of at least five individuals who had fathered more than 100 children and one individual who had fathered nearly 200.
A Doctor, Patient and Dad Tells His Tale
By Mark Leondires, MD
As a reproductive endocrinologist at a large IVF practice, I am responsible for our third party reproduction program where we have an anonymous egg donation program. Over the years we have often discussed; what do …
Shortage of Canadian Sperm Donors Forces Couples to Head South
This is the third part of the Michelle Lang Fellowship series, which this year takes a look at the issues facing would-be Canadian parents who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer.
Male Infertility Treatable in 95% of Cases
Dr. Molina Dayal, is the Medical Director of Sher Fertility St. Louis. She was a guest on the noon show Tuesday, to discuss male infertility. According to medical statistics, nearly one third of all infertility cases, male infertility is the problem.
1 in 3 Doctors Still Needlessly Removing Healthy Ovaries, Study Finds
A new study from Baystate Medical Center found that one-third of gynecologists continue to recommend removal of healthy ovaries from women undergoing hysterectomies who haven’t yet entered menopause. This goes against recommendations of their own medical society, the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, which advises against ovary removal in pre-menopausal women undergoing hysterectomies who aren’t at increased risk of ovarian cancer.
What Affects Your Fertility?
Infertility is when a couple cannot conceive despite having regular unprotected sex. It can be caused by a range of disorders and lifestyle factors. However, fertility problems cannot be explained in around a third of cases.
California Passes The Most Progressive Surrogacy Bill In The World
by Andrew Vorzimer, Esq. and David Randall, Esq.
Late last year, in reaction to recent incendiary industry scandals and calls to modernize California statutes relating to third party reproduction, Governor Jerry Brown signed California Assembly …