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2004

December 30, 2004

 

Growing trend: new mothers in their 50s, 60s

 

December 19, 2004

 

Milton woman finds joy as surrogate mom, but legal issues cloud practice

 

November 19, 2004

 

Straights can procreate 'unnaturally'

 

Two Women, Two Families, One Heart

 

November 18, 2004

 

Facing Virginia's Hostility

Surrogate delivers second child to family

November 17, 2004

 

Prosser woman admits adoption fraud

 

November 14, 2004

 

Everyday dads

 

November 9, 2004

 

Don't worry, say other older moms

 

November 7, 2004

 

Surrogacy more common but not in region

 

Surrogate: 'I know I helped somebody'

 

Lakeland Woman Serves as Surrogate, Gives Twin Gifts to Family

 

November 6, 2004

 

UK - Payments plan for egg donors

 

October 30, 2004

 

Friends, foes of Amendment 3 make last appeals

 

October 26, 2004

 

India - Finding surrogate mothers easier

 

October 3, 2004

 

New Zealand - The other way to be a mother

 

September 22, 2004

 

Who Gets Custody When the Fertility Clinic Makes a Mistake?

 

Defendant in surrogate mom case testifies

 

September 21,2004

 

Twice blessed: Multiple births are on the rise across America

 

September 19, 2004

 

Taiwan - Legalize surrogates, says panel

 

Offspring in the 21st century

 

September 18, 2004

 

Taiwan - Surrogate Mother to be permitted conditionally

 

September 17, 2004

 

UK - Jackie's vow to bring couples joy

 

September 16, 2004

 

Surrogate mother gets joy out of helping others have children

 

September 14, 2004

 

 

Couple settles lawsuit against clinic doctor who implanted embryo into wrong woman

UK - IVF Twins Born to Biological Mother of Infertile Woman Using Donated Embryos; Infertile Woman Wins Custody

September 9, 2004

 

'Don't care about DNA, baby's mine'
 

September 6, 2004

 

Gays forging creative paths to parenthood

 

September 5, 2004

 

Only option left for many couples

 

September 3, 2004

 

Big to-do ova triplet certificate

 

September 1, 2004

 

Kelsey Grammer, wife add a boy to the family

 

August 31, 2004

 

Taiwan - Public panel examines surrogacy

 

August 27, 2004

 

Jury indicts woman in pregnancy scam

 

August 19, 2004

 

Lawmaker's bill asks, 'Who's a parent?'

 

August 15, 2004

 

UK - 'I am just paying back the gift'

 

August 14, 2004

 

Twins' registration nixed over surrogacy

 

Our 500th Surrogate

 

August 9, 2004

 

Why donor offspring need to know the truth

Fertility laws frustrate Italians

 

August 6, 2004

 

No designer babies for NZ

 

August 1, 2004

 

Rights, responsibilities of same-sex parents at stake

 

July 30, 2004

 

Biological father argues for triplets born to surrogate

 

July 26, 2004

 

Twins born to own gran fly home

 

July 24, 2004

 

Learning about fatherhood on the high seas with Rosie

 

July 22, 2004

 

Taiwan - 20-member surrogacy panel to nut out public consensus

 

July 20, 2004

 

UK - Your life: Family - I'm a serial surrogate

 

July 18, 2004

 

Legal fight leaves triplets in limbo

 

Many states lack laws addressing surrogacy

 

July 14, 2004

 

Twins born to different mothers

 

Having her babies

 

July 9, 2004

 

Biological father argues for triplets born to surrogate

 

July 7, 2004

 

Egg donor enters battle for custody of triplets

 

The evolution of parenting

 

Dutch abandon surrogacy pregnancies

 

June 30, 2004

 

Embryo-mixup case settled

 

June 20, 2004

 

UK - Controversial first surrogacy hits headlines

 

Gay parents of quads have separated

 

Surrogate sister, surprise pregnancy of wife result in couple's miracle twins

 

Paul Redd-Butterfield and Tony Butterfield - Gay dads

 

June 18, 2004

 

Reporting surrogate-parent payments

 

Japan won't recognize twins born to surrogate

 

Single Mothers-to-Be Face Bias, Race Ticking Clock

 

June 17, 2004

 

Paternal Instinct

 

June 11, 2004

 

Japan refuses mother's recognition request

 

June 10, 2004

 

Japan - Insemination Bill stalls, again

 

June 7, 2004

 

UK - Trading Babies

 

UK - Surrogate joy at last for childless couple

 

June 3, 2004

 

Brazil - Woman gives birth... to own granddaughter

 

June 2, 2004

 

Two decades after the Baby M case, many states still have no surrogacy laws

 

May 30, 2004

 

War over boy raised by Gays  

 

May 28, 2004

 

Japan - Desperate couples seek court's help

 

May 26, 2004

 

Japan - Doctors, Patients Sue Organization

 

May 23, 2004

 

UK - I handed over my baby son to a childless couple a year ago..Now I'm overjoyed to give them a second child.

 

May 22, 2004

 

UK - Mother jailed over internet baby sale

 

May 21, 2004

 

UK - Circle of Life

 

UK - Mother Treated her Baby as 'A Commodity'

 

May 19, 2004

 

What Is A Mother? The California "Egg Donor" Case Gets It Wrong

 

May 18, 2004

 

UK - Love for pregnancy makes Jill Hawkins a baby factory!

 

May 16, 2004

 

People now recognize we are out there

 

May 12, 2004

 

C.A. Rejects Egg Donor’s Claim to Be Parent of Partner’s Child

 

May 11, 2004

 

Lesbian egg donor has no parental rights to kids born from lover

 

May 10, 2004

 

Unlike judge, surrogacy advocates urge hands-off approach by lawmakers

 

May 8, 2004

 

A Mother’s Day miracle

 

May 7, 2004

 

Rapid City surrogate mom shares story in new book

 

May 2, 2004

 

New Zealand - Surrogacy babies a 'miracle'

 

April 28, 2004

 

Mother felt time running out to bear child for her daughter

 

April 27, 2004

 

SPECIAL BONDS Unusual Relationships Develop When Mom Is a Surrogate

 

April 26, 2004

 

UK - Couple's cycle of heartbreak

 

The Battle over same-sex marriage.  After the wedding bells, gays face maze of legal obstacles

 

Australia - Older dads not in the swim

 

April 24, 2004

 

South Africa - Site selling egg cells 'frozen'

 

April 23, 2004

 

Twin 'donates an ovary' to sister

 

April 22, 2004

 

Paternity issues under study

 

South Africa - US fertility safaris to city offer women R13 000 for eggs

 

UK - Egg donation plea shows the power of the press

 

April 19, 2004

 

UK - You made baby dream come alive

 

Center plans infertility seminar

 

Australia - Women unite in fight of love versus the law

 

April 18, 2004

State's surrogacy stance murky

UK - Do these two men and their babies constitute the most bizarre surrogate family in America?

April 16, 2004

UK - Couple's heartbreak after snub by adoption service

Australia - Sperm donor website must close, says MP

April 14, 2004

Fewer Women Having Triplets or More

A Pregnancy Aid For Older Women

April 13, 2004

Triplets' surrogate mom fights to keep baby boys

April 11, 2004

 

UK - Surrogate mum tries to sell her baby

Judge allows surrogate mother to be legal parent of triplets

April 9, 2004

Doctor Delivers Her Own Twins

New Technique Raises Pregnancy Odds Without Multiple Births

April 7, 2004

How Much for that Academically Accomplished Baby in the Window?

April 6, 2004

UK - Act of kindness

April 5, 2004

In-Vitro Fertilization Guidelines

April 2, 2004

 

Internet baby couple criticised 

 

Pro-lifers criticize report by president's bioethics council

 

Couple's heartache over surrogacy con

 

March 15, 2004

 

Using Experimental Means To Have Children

 

March 13, 2004

 

NZ - Fertility clinics address ethnic concerns

 

March 12, 2004

 

How far will couples go to conceive?

 

Embryo failure rocks family

 

March 10, 2004

 

Embryo Obtained after Breast Cancer Patient's Ovarian Tissues is Frozen, Stored For Six Years, And Then Reimplanted

 

March 8, 2004

 

Australia - Push to curb multiple IVF births

 

March 5, 2004

 

The high-tech method of makin' babies

 

March 4, 2004

 

Sorry, the bank's out of eggs and sperm

 

Canada - Infertile couples disappointed with cloning bill

 

March 3, 2004

 

Embryo Adoption Brings Hope To Infertile Couples

 

Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis offers hope but prompts ethical concerns

 

March 2, 2004

 

March 1, 2004

 

Another little miracle

 

February 29, 2004

 

UK -  Lesbian couple's internet tot born

 

India - Manufactured motherhood

 

Prosecutor calls adoption fraud case 'heartbreaking'

 

February 28, 2004

 

Just-Married Gay Couples Ask What's Wrong

 

UK - Bearing gifts

 

February 27, 2004

 

Surrogate births, Japan debates

 

Paid surrogacy makes sense

 

February 26, 2004

 

Japan - City won't register surrogate twins

February 24, 2004

Marriage is for the children

February 21, 2004

 

Japan - Ministry refuses to register twins from surrogate birth

 

Lesbian ex-couple fight for custody

 

February 18, 2004

 

India - My mother gave birth to my twins

 

February 16, 2004

 

Surrogate Mother Legislation Passes House Committee

 

UK - Couples launch search for egg donors  

 

February 3, 2004

 

Surrogate mother calls daughter's babies a miracle

 

Childless couple opt for surrogacy but choose to keep mum

 

Forbidden apple from the hi-tech tree of life

 

February 2, 2004

 

Messing with life

 

Parents denying the right to know who you are

 

UK mum will have to adopt her kids

 

February 1, 2004

 

UK - I'm proud to bear daughter's twins, says surrogate mother

 

Couple wait for their bundles of joy

 

UMC Physician saving cancer victims fertility

 

January 31, 2004

 

India - Row as mother gives birth to daughter's twins

 

Many frozen embryos go unclaimed

 

January 30, 2004

 

Surrogate mother report re-ignites ethical debate

 

Twins for surrogate grandmother

 

January 29, 2004

 

Here, grand-mom’s the word

 

Surrogate mother gives birth to her grandchildren

 

Embryo Battle:  Evans wins right to appeal

 

January 25, 2004

 

Cool concept: freezing human eggs

 

January 24, 2004

 

Donors grant baby wishes

 

January 23, 2004

 

Grandmother is surrogate mother to grandchildren

 

January 22, 2004

 

Couples 'facing donor trauma'

 

Naming Names Is A Donor Handicap

 

January 21, 2004

 

Children may track donor parents

 

January 20, 2004

 

Egg and sperm donors to be named

 

Donor names: ill-conceived idea or every child's right?

 

January 19, 2004

 

Reproductive Technology Report a Mixed Bag

 

January 18, 2004

 

Indian mother to give birth to her daughter's kids

 

January 17, 2004

 

Removal of Sperm Donor Anonymity Reports Condemned

 

January 16, 2004

 

Same-sex parenting: Does a mom & dad make a difference?

 

January 13, 2004

 

Japan's Fertility-Treatment Boom Pressures Women

 

January 11, 2004

 

Two Fathers, With One Happy to Stay at Home

 

January 10, 2004

 

Gay parents of quadruplets add another son to family

 

January 7, 2004

 

India - Mother Lends womb to daughter

 

UK - Mother held at hospital for 'selling baby on internet'
 

January 5 2004

 

Australia - Baby scam on Internet

 

Australia - Triple the number of women find egg donors

 

UK - IVF Couples 'Willing to Donate Extra Embryos'

 

Holland - New Dutch laws on smoking and healthcare come into force

 

N.J. governor signs into law bill allowing therapeutic cloning, stem cell research

 

UK - Sperm counts have dropped by a almost third in 10 years

 

January 4, 2004

 

New Zealand - Families in donor follow-up

 

Two women declared natural parents

 

January 2, 2004

 

Not even menopause could stop this woman

 

2003

 

December 29, 2003

 

Japan - Children Born through Artificial Insemination Speak up
 

December 22, 2003

 

A new family man

 

December 21, 2003

 

Court to weigh parental rights

 

Fewer deductions, more complications

 

December 18, 2003

 

Australia - Shortage of sperm risks IVF

 

Australia - Tasmania suffers sperm shortage

 

December 15, 2003

 

Japan - Searching for the Stork

 

December 14, 2003

 

Australian Court Approves Gay Co-Parenting

 

December 13, 2003,

 

Australia - Gay couple 'parents', court finds

 

December 11, 2003

 

Australia - Sydney sperm shortage

 

Fertilisation laws in the world

 

Italian Senate OKs Fertility Restriction

 

Italy Adopts New Restrictive Reproductive Rights Law

 

Italy passes controversial reproduction bill

 

December 10, 2003

 

The Gay Baby Boom is a Sign of the Times

 

Japan - U.S. surrogate mother for TV talent Mukai gives birth to twins

 

UK - Woman in IVF egg plea

 

December 8, 2003

 

Pregnancy From Frozen Donor Egg Achieved At Diamond Institute

 

Sperm donors could veto pregnancy - Australia

 

December 7, 2003

 

Gift of Life

India - In foreign baby labs, NRI couples have white babies!

Australia - Donor kids get right to know their parents

December 5, 2003

 

Japanese couple seek citizenship for surrogate twins

 

Estranged lesbians battle for custody of twins. Courts must decide if egg donor should have parental rights

 

December 1, 2003

 

UK - Gynaecologist backs ban on donation of human eggs

 

November 30, 2003

 

Gay and lesbian couples find hope in Mass. ruling, challenges in building families