The U.S. Supreme Court this week reversed an earlier ruling of the Alabama Supreme Court, reinstating the parental rights of a lesbian mom to the children she had legally adopted in another state. On the face of it, the [...]
Category: Fertility Law
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 [...]
Wed 27 Jan, 2016
Crowdfunding for ART is Growing Trend
A growing number of couples are turning to crowdfunding to help finance their efforts to become parents via assisted reproductive technology procedures, San Francisco’s Bay News 9 and New York Post reported recently [...].
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 [...]
A San Francisco court upheld earlier this week an agreement that frozen embryos created via in vitro fertilization during a couple’s marriage would be discarded in the event of their divorce. Before undergoing fertility [...]