Even as some states and a growing number of corporations offer support for family-building expenses such as adoption or IVF, LGBTQ intended parents are still likely to face higher medical and legal costs than their [...]
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In a historic event, Chile recently welcomed its first legal same-sex marriage, joining the ranks of 30 other countries worldwide that have passed similar laws allowing same-sex marriage and, in doing so, ensuring same-sex [...]
Fri 8 Apr, 2022
IRS Says Assisted Reproduction for LGBTQ Couples Not Deductible
With income tax time upon us, same-sex couples who hoped to deduct expenses for assisted reproductive technologies such as egg or sperm donation, in vitro fertilization or surrogacy are meeting with disappointment—even as [...]
Tue 8 Feb, 2022
How to Tell Your Kids They Were Born Using IVF
In 1978, in England, Louise Brown, the first child made outside the womb, was born. Over the course of the next few years, babies like Louise were labeled as “test tube babies” and shrouded in mystery, and there was a [...]
Wed 6 Oct, 2021
End to Travel Bans, Naturalization Reforms Are Good News for International Surrogacy
With the recent lifting of COVID-19-related travel bans, effective in November 2021, as well as long-needed reforms to U.S. naturalization procedures, most intended parents who travel abroad for IVF and surrogacy will find [...]