Source Jam News
Elizaveta Pohudina lives with her husband and young daughter near the city of Kharkov in Ukraine. In April, she gave birth to a baby girl and gave her to a couple from Spain.
Elizaveta is a surrogate mother. She has long dreamed of owning a home, though has not had the money to make the purchase. She decided to become a surrogate mother in order to receive a large, one-time payout. Her family supported her in her endeavor, though not immediately.
Source Daily Mail
Desperate couples are spending up to £60,000 to have babies through surrogate mothers giving birth in the UK, a conference was told.
The huge sums – more than double the average full-time salary of £28,000 – come despite a ban on commercial surrogacy.
Surrogate mothers in the UK are legally allowed to receive ‘reasonable expenses’ for carrying a pregnancy and giving birth.
Courts judge what ‘reasonable expenses’ are when transferring the parenting rights from the surrogate mother to the intended parents.
But courts can, and do, allow bigger sums if it is considered in the best interests of the child.
Critics yesterday hit out at the potential cost of having a baby through a surrogate and said it shows the ‘commercialisation of reproduction’.
Source Haaretz
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman refused a request from Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit to consider including single men and same-sex couples in proposed legislation allowing single women to use surrogacy services.
Litzman told the attorney general he believed the version of the government-sponsored bill that was approved by a Knesset committee this week, clearing the way for its approval by the legislature, should stand.
Source Refinery 29
I only made one resolution this New Year: have a baby. And being a single woman in my late 30s with nary a respectable parenting partner in sight (the best men I know are either married – too complicated – or related by blood – too illegal), I decided to get creative. I underwent IVF, or in vitro fertilisation, using sperm from an anonymous donor.
Source The Sydney Morning Heral
Kahlia Holroyd, a 25-year-old primary school teacher, loves children. But watching her older brother struggle with the debilitating effects of mitochondrial disease has made her question whether she should ever have her own babies.
But no longer. A Senate committee has carved a path for the Federal Government to move towards legalising the “three parent” IVF technique that would prevent babies being born with mitochondrial disease, a genetic disorder that robs the body’s cells of energy, causing organ dysfunction and death.
Source Women’s Health
Chrissy Teigen has no problem sharing that both of her children were conceived through in-vitro fertilization (IVF)—and why should she?
Chrissy posted a photo of her hew newborn Miles on Instagram Tuesday—which was adorable, but not necessarily news.
The real stuff went down in the comments section, when a fan asked Chrissy if Miles was conceived through IVF like her daughter Luna. The fan received some flack from other commenters, but Chrissy was totally fine with it.
Source Daily Mail
New Zealand-based Laura Giddey has helped six different couples to become parents since she began donating her eggs in late 2015.
Speaking to FEMAIL, Ms Giddey, 29, said while becoming a donor wasn’t something she’d previously thought about, spotting an ad posted by a desperate couple to a Facebook group she was following changed all of that.
‘As soon as I saw the ad I thought “I could do that”, I hadn’t thought about this before but knew it was something I could do,’ Ms Giddey said.
Source CNN
San Francisco, California (CNN) — Their first date was over lunch during a Proposition 8 protest, where they joined hundreds of others railing against the passage of California’s same-sex marriage ban. The two men took a break from demonstrating, threw their hearts on the table and talked about their desire to have kids.
So it was somehow appropriate that in June 2013, nearly five years later, Bill Taroli and Yang Li stood in a delivery room and welcomed their son, Henry, one day before the US Supreme Court overturned Prop 8. A couple weeks later, with their newborn in their arms, they exchanged vows and were legally married.
