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Surrogacy
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Infertility, Surrogacy
Best Friends Endure Pregnancy by Surrogacy
In western Massachusetts, one woman is carrying a baby for her best friend, who has a disease that would make pregnancy dangerous. Every year, an estimated 1,300 babies are born in the United States to gestational carriers — women who bear a child from the egg and sperm of another couple. Only a small percentage [...]
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Fertility Tourism, Infertility, IVF, Surrogacy
Commercial Surrogacy is Approved in the UK
A serving High Court judge has told the BBC that he is approving commercial surrogacy agreements made by British couples abroad. Mr Justice Hedley, who specialises in family law, said it was important to highlight the issue because people were “getting into a mess unnecessarily”. Four weeks ago a judgement was handed down at the [...]
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Donors, Egg Donation, Surrogacy
Fertility SOURCE Companies Continues Rapid Growth with Record-Breaking First Quarter
Fertility SOURCE Companies, parent company of The Donor SOURCE, The Surrogacy SOURCE and Prospective Families, has announced record-breaking earnings for the first quarter of 2011. The financial growth of the company is reflected in a number of key areas. Fertility SOURCE Companies has doubled the size of its headquarters, expanded their professional team and dramatically [...]
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Surrogacy
International Couples Come to the U.S. for Surrogacy
No one tracks how many of the estimated 1,400 babies via surrogacy in the U.S. each year are for international parents, but one of the larger U.S. agencies, the Center for Surrogate Parenting in Encino, Calif., estimates that about half of its 104 births in 2010 were for international parents, the paper reports. Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/04/24/report-international-couples-using-women-surrogates/#ixzz1KSyGhIu4
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Advocacy, Surrogacy
Australian Mother Used a Surrogate; Won Landmark Case to be Named on Birth Certificate
An Adelaide woman with a surrogate son has won a landmark case to be named on the child’s birth certificate. The woman, who cannot be named, is the child’s genetic mother – her egg and her husband’s sperm were used to conceive the boy in the womb of an interstate surrogate. Surrogacy advocates praised the [...]
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Advocacy, Infertility, Surrogacy
The Final Push: Washington Surrogacy Legislation
With less than two weeks before the regular legislative session ends, it’s time for Washington lawmakers to make the final push to get their bills approved by both houses and signed into law by the governor… The Senate passed an amended version of a bill by Rep. Jamie Pedersen, D-Seattle, that would legalize compensated surrogacy [...]
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Fertility Tourism, Infertility, Surrogacy
France’s Ban on Surrogacy
In a ruling that affirmed France’s ban on surrogacy, the country’s top court refused on Wednesday to allow French citizenship for 10-year-old twin girls born to a surrogate mother in the United States who carried the babies for a French couple… The ruling exposes the legal limbo that many would-be parents find themselves in because [...]
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Egg Donation, Infertility, IVF, Surrogacy
IVF Baby Day, The First Sunday of April
Ukraine has established The White Orchid Day, the international holiday for IVF babies… An orchid is the world’s only flower that reproduces through assisted reproductive technologies, which explains the name of the holiday. Read the full article: http://www.ivf.net/ivf/the-white-orchid-day-o5842.html
PF Blog
- Best Friends Endure Pregnancy by Surrogacy
- Sweden: Daughter Gets Transplant of Mother’s Womb
- Egg Freezing: Putting the Biological Clock on Hold?
- Commercial Surrogacy is Approved in the UK
- Increase Pregnancy Rates for IVF with Mind/Body Programs
- An Overview of Female Fertility in 2010, by the Census Bureau News
- Fertility SOURCE Companies Continues Rapid Growth with Record-Breaking First Quarter
- It’s National Infertility Awareness Week: April 24-30th
- Successful LGBT Family Building Event
- International Couples Come to the U.S. for Surrogacy
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