Tuesday November 26th, 2019
Millions of New Yorkers, and some residents of other states covered by health insurance offered through New York-based employers with 100 or more employees and […]
Monday November 18th, 2019
Same-sex marriage has been legal in Ireland since 2015. However, under current law, same sex couples who become parents are not automatically afforded parental rights. […]
Monday October 28th, 2019
Common cancer treatments including chemotherapy, radiation, and some surgical procedures can leave patients struggling to become pregnant. For anyone who wants to start a family, […]
Tuesday October 22nd, 2019
Here in the United States where surrogacy is an increasingly common way to start or add to a family, it is easy sometimes to forget […]
Tuesday October 15th, 2019
In France, one of several countries in which surrogacy arrangements are illegal, intended parents do not enjoy automatic recognition as their child’s parents. In fact, […]
Monday October 14th, 2019
Today, there is very little regulation over fertility clinics or the $6 billion fertility industry as a whole. That lack of regulation can lead to […]
Wednesday September 25th, 2019
A battle over the U.S. State Department’s denial of citizenship rights to a baby born to two U.S. citizens is brewing. A same-sex married couple […]
Wednesday September 25th, 2019
Intended parents in New Zealand are currently subject to the country’s Adoption Act, passed into law some 64 years ago. Under that antiquated law, parents […]
Friday September 20th, 2019
In vitro fertilization (IVF) has become an increasingly common way for parents to conceive children, with clinics located nationwide offering help and hope for couples […]
Tuesday September 3rd, 2019
Unlike in many other countries, a child born in the United States is a citizen of the United States, regardless of its parents’ citizenship status. […]
Monday August 12th, 2019
Same-sex couples in Utah are celebrating a recent Utah Supreme Court decision which overturned an outdated state law governing surrogacy. That law prohibited same-sex couples […]
Friday August 9th, 2019
When a same-sex American couple recently brought their baby girl, Simone, home for the first time, they did so using a tourist visa for her […]
Wednesday July 24th, 2019
It started off as a common-enough story: A married couple who had trouble conceiving turned to a Los Angeles clinic offering in vitro fertilization to […]
Friday July 12th, 2019
A new law in Virginia, signed by Governor Ralph Northam last month, should make it easier for same-sex male couples and single people to become […]
Friday July 5th, 2019
In a recent blog post, we shared the story of a court battle being waged in Australia over a sperm donor’s parental rights for a […]
Friday June 14th, 2019
When a couple has completed their family through in vitro fertilization they typically have embryos cryopreserved. What happens to those frozen embryos when the couple […]