Wednesday June 14th, 2017
June 4, 2017 marked National Cancer Survivors Day, the same day that Melissa Thompson, a breast cancer survivor and political advocate for fertility treatment coverage, […]
Wednesday June 7th, 2017
A court in the Netherlands ordered a gay couple to return their newborn back to their surrogate after DNA tests showed that neither of the […]
Thursday May 18th, 2017
On May 4, the House of Representatives passed an amendment to the proposed health care bill, The American Health Care Act (AHCA), in an attempt […]
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
Update on Surrogacy in Mexico 4/30/2035 A Stronger, Safer, and Clearer Legal Framework In the years since those early struggles, Mexico has taken significant strides […]
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, […]