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• Fertility Tourism, Infertility, IVF, Surrogacy

  Commercial Surrogacy is Approved in the UK

  05.26.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  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 [...]

• Donors, Egg Donation, Surrogacy

  Fertility SOURCE Companies Continues Rapid Growth with Record-Breaking First Quarter

  04.28.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  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 [...]

• Advocacy, Surrogacy

  Australian Mother Used a Surrogate; Won Landmark Case to be Named on Birth Certificate

  04.17.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  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 [...]

• Advocacy, Infertility, Surrogacy

  The Final Push: Washington Surrogacy Legislation

  04.14.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  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 [...]

• Fertility Tourism, Infertility, Surrogacy

  France’s Ban on Surrogacy

  04.06.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  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 [...]