Monday May 8th, 2017
B.C. Supreme Court Justice Neena Sharma granted a woman a comprehensive settlement from severe injuries sustained in a 2011 head-on collision caused by an intoxicated […]
Friday April 28th, 2017
The New York Department of Financial Services updated its infertility treatment guidelines, announcing that health insurance companies within the state cannot deny coverage to customers […]
Monday April 24th, 2017
The Nebraska Supreme Court upheld an earlier ruling allowing same-sex couples to foster children, abandoning a 20-year-old policy which prohibited gays and lesbians from doing […]
Thursday April 20th, 2017
The legalization of same-sex marriage in 2015 did not address same-sex parenting in the United States. For those couples, the legal gap between marriage and […]
Tuesday April 18th, 2017
The Collaborative Reproduction Amendment Act of 2016 has gone into effect, ending the gestational surrogacy ban in the District of Columbia. Surrogacy is now legal, […]
Monday February 27th, 2017
In two separate parts of the world, surrogacy bans and issuance of birth certificates continue to wreak havoc on parents wanting to return home with […]
Wednesday February 15th, 2017
State lawmakers Rep. John Lesch and Sen. Sandra Pappas recently unveiled the Minnesota Gestational Carrier Act with the intent to regulate the surrogacy industry. Currently, […]
Monday February 13th, 2017
An Indiana lawmaker has introduced, House Bill 1059, aimed at health insurance companies adding fertility treatments for its members. According to Representative Robin Shackleford the […]
Saturday January 28th, 2017
A Canadian court will soon decide if a sperm donor, who claims that he never intended to parent, will be required to retroactively pay child […]
Wednesday January 18th, 2017
An Italian court has ruled that a same-sex couple’s twins, born to a California surrogate in 2015, are not in fact brothers, despite being born […]
Wednesday December 14th, 2016
In a recent right-to-live lawsuit filed against Sofia Vergara, she is being sued by her two frozen embryos, named “Emma” and “Isabella” in court documents, […]
Wednesday November 30th, 2016
After a four-year legal battle, Shawnee County District Court Judge Mary Mattivi ruled that Topeka sperm donor, William Marotta, is not the legal father of […]
Friday November 25th, 2016
The battle over two frozen embryos was decided by the Missouri Court of Appeals last week. In a contentious dispute involving divorced couple Jalesia McQueen, […]
Tuesday November 22nd, 2016
A former Verizon employee filed a lawsuit against her employer alleging the company’s refusal to pay for her maternity leave benefits. Marybeth Walz required a […]
Tuesday November 8th, 2016
According to CBC News, a possible class-action lawsuit against former fertility doctor, Norman Barwin of Ottawa, Canada, alleges he impregnated two patients with his own […]
Monday October 31st, 2016
In 2017, The Word Health Organization (WHO) will officially publish a more expansive definition of how infertility qualifies as a disability. Considered a progressive move, […]