As intended parents, donors and surrogates all over the world are postponing procedures, cancelling appointments, and juggling last-minute changes to travel and birthing plans due to the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, LGBTQ [...]
Category: Egg Donation Information
Mon 10 Feb, 2020
Surrogacy Education Down Under Kicks Off IFLG’s 2020 Travel Plans
I was excited and honored to have the opportunity to speak on U.S. surrogacy laws at two Growing Family conferences on February 8 in Sydney and on February 9 in Melbourne, Australia. Both full-day conferences were [...]
The headlines have been full recently of the stories of two same-sex couples, one parents of twins, the other parents of sibling daughters, both suing the U.S. State Department in an attempt to secure citizenship denied to [...]
Thu 11 Feb, 2016
Class Action Settlement Ends Price Guidelines for Egg Donor Fees
Parties in a long-standing class action lawsuit against two non-profit organizations serving assisted reproductive technology providers and egg donor agencies finally settled recently in an agreement that some say may result [...]
Tue 12 Jan, 2016
Reciprocal Not Necessarily Equal in Reciprocal IVF
Reciprocal IVF (in vitro fertilization) often is chosen by lesbian couples who want to have a child together. In a typical reciprocal IVF scenario, one partner provides the eggs, the other gestates, or becomes pregnant and [...]
Fri 18 Dec, 2015
End-of-Year Tax Question: Does 2*Gay = Infertility?
A law professor at Stetson University in Tampa, Florida, is suing the IRS to treat his and his partner’s assisted reproductive technology costs in the same way it has treated infertility treatment expenses for heterosexual [...]