surrogacy

An Open Letter RE: Louisiana SB 162 (Provides for Surrogacy Contracts)

May 8, 2013 Members of the Louisiana House of Representatives: We are writing to urge your rejection of SB 162, a bill that would allow commercial surrogacy or contract pregnancy in Louisiana. The inevitable consequence of this legislation is that it turns women into exploitable commodities through financial inducement that targets young healthy women. SB [...]

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What Could Go Wrong?

Wanted: “Extremely Adventurous Female Human” to be Surrogate Mother for Neanderthal Baby No, this is not a tabloid headline you read while waiting to checkout at the grocery store or something you might find on Craigslist in the Help Wanted ads. This comes from a line by Harvard University’s prestigious geneticist, George Church, highlighted in [...]

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Surrogate Fights Gay Couple for Child Custody

Brave New Reproduction has casualties. In Texas, a surrogate mother is fighting for custody against a gay couple. From the KHOU, Houston story: An unusual custody battle involving a surrogate mother and two Houston men is playing out in a Harris County courtroom.Cindy Close, 48, gave birth to twins at Texas Children’s Medical Center in [...]

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Are Women Easy Bake Ovens?

By Elizabeth Marquardt and Jennifer Lahl The New Normal, a sitcom that debuted on NBC this fall, features a gay couple deciding to have a child. They settle upon using an egg donor and a surrogate mother, the latter described cheerfully by a fertility industry representative as “an Easy Bake Oven except with no legal [...]

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Who Speaks For the Child in India Rent a Womb Contracts?

Destitute women in India are the targets of biological colonialism, in which (mostly) Westerners pay brokers to hire the wombs of women to bear the children of well off women who either cant, or don’t want to, themselves. Now, an Indian public policy journal asks what are the rights of the children of such surrogacy [...]

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Surrogates and Their Discontents

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By Christopher White, CBC Director of Education and Programs, and a Fellow of the Paul Ramsey Institute. Governor Christie’s recent veto of a bill that would lower restrictions on gestational surrogate mothers should prompt us to consider surrogacy’s harmful effects on mothers and children. Meet Cathleen: a twenty-year-old from New Brunswick, Canada, who served as [...]

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State-by-State Surrogacy Summary

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With the help of our summer law intern, we have prepared a state-by-state summary of surrogacy in the United States. The chart covers the stance of state courts toward surrogacy, any requirements that the intended parents be married, whether money is allowed to be involved in surrogacy contracts/transactions, and a brief summary of applicable laws. [...]

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Victory for Women in New Jersey

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By Kathleen Sloan, Consultant to the CBC Women’s health and human rights advocates are popping champagne corks all over the country today. Legislation that would have allowed commercial surrogacy in the state of New Jersey, without protections for women who serve as surrogates and no regulation of the fertility industry, was vetoed. Virtually written by [...]

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Altruistic Surrogacy Ban for Gays, Singles Wrongly Discriminates

When IVF began, we were told it was only to permit infertile married couples have children. It has since expanded geometrically to become an industry that also includes eugenic options, commercialization of gametes and uteruses, and facilitation of what were once called alternative lifestyles. It has resulted in treating nascent life as a natural resource [...]

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A Tale of Eggsploitation

This fall NBC brings us a tale of eggsploitation, The New Normal: A Post-Modern Family (She’s Having Their Baby). From the preview trailer, embedded below: Click through our egg donor file, find your match, and then implant it in a surrogate. She’s just like an easy bake oven, except with no legal rights to the [...]

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