by Katy Faust | Mar 1, 2024 | Surrogacy
(Originally published in The Federalist) Surrogacy is risky for children. Not just the risk of a primal wound via intentional birth mother separation. Not just the risk of identity struggles if their genetic mother is purchased from a catalog. Not just the risk...
by Katy Faust | Dec 7, 2023 | Surrogacy
(Originally published in The Federalist) Yet another gay conservative surrogate-born baby announcement has been met with another round of conservative elites offering their congratulations. Mind you, many of these same people surely objected to the hospital bed photo...
by Katie Breckenridge | Dec 7, 2023 | Surrogacy, The Latest
(Originally published in The Federalist) The Michigan House passed the Assisted Reproduction and Surrogacy Parentage Act, HBs 5207-5215, on Nov. 9, 2023. These bills seek to legalize surrogacy, which is still a misdemeanor in Michigan, and establish parentage rights...
by Katie Breckenridge | Dec 5, 2023 | Studies, The Latest
In a European study of child outcomes, researchers evaluated the children born to gay couples through surrogacy and compared them to those born to heterosexual couples. The study participants included 67 gay couples who became parents via gestational surrogacy and 67...
by Them Before Us | Nov 16, 2023 | Stories
While working as a doctor, [I’ve seen] that egg/sperm donation or surrogacy isn’t questioned in terms of the impact that it may have on the child. I would say in fact, that it is celebrated. Celebrated in the sense that people are not allowing themselves...