Egg Donation, New Zealand, Surrogacy

New Zealand – ACT backing Tamati Coffey’s surrogacy bill

Source 1 News

Labour MP Tamati Coffey’s surrogacy bill has today got backing from the ACT party. 

Coffey’s bill covers many areas, including identifying on the birth certificate who donated an embryo or cells, as well as the surrogate.

It also calls for a register listing potential surrogates and, crucially, the ability to create a legally-binding surrogacy order ahead of the child’s birth.

“So that the time that baby’s born, the intending parents become the parents. We’ve heard a few heartache stories along the way about that gap and what happens in there,” Coffey said

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Cancer, Surrogacy

Cancer survivor’s dream of motherhood comes true through surrogacy

Source 23 ABC News

The sound of their baby crying is something John and Kristen Krafthefer will never take for granted.

“I’m just thankful. I didn’t know I’d meet [him],” said Kristen.

“He was always that light at the end of the tunnel,” said John.

In July 2018, Kristen was diagnosed with breast cancer. Her cancer was estrogen receptor positive. That meant Kristen couldn’t do what she desperately wanted to do – have a baby.

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Surrogacy

What You Should Know If You Want To Use A Surrogate In New York

Source Lawyers.com

For many years, New York was behind the times when it came to recognizing the nontraditional ways in which people have children. The practice of paid surrogacy was banned. But on February 15, 2021, landmark legislation went into effect that allows couples and individuals to have a child by a surrogate they legally hire for pay.

The Child Parent Security Act (CPSA) includes specific requirements for how compensated surrogacy arrangements can be made. Important provisions of the law concern:

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Israel, Same Sex, Surrogacy

Israel will allow same sex couples to access surrogacy

Source BioNews

Israel’s Supreme Court has ruled that same-sex couples and single men will be able to become parents through surrogacy.

The court had previously ruled that the law allowing only heterosexual couples and single women to access surrogacy was discriminatory (see BioNews 1037) and gave the government a year to revise the legislation. This deadline passed in March this year without changes being made. 

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India, Surrogacy

India – A Controversial Ban on Commercial Surrogacy Could Leave Women in India With Even Fewer Choices

Source Time com

It’s nearly noon when Pinky Macwan wakes up and rubs her eyes, shifting uncomfortably. She’s in her second trimester of pregnancy with twins and finds herself constantly sluggish. Still in her floral nightgown, she walks down the fluorescent-lit hallway and splashes cold water on her face in the bathroom she shares with 46 other women, all surrogates at various stages of pregnancy. It’s late February, and Macwan has spent the past four months living in the basement of the Akanksha Hospital in bustling Anand, a town in the western Indian state of Gujarat. Home to the headquarters of the major dairy cooperative Amul, Anand has long been known as the milk capital of India. But booming business at Akanksha has also garnered the town another label: India’s baby factory.

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Surrogacy

Colorado Court Rules In Chinese Celebrity Surrogacy Case

Source Above The Law

This case was shocking when it hit the news earlier this year. A Chinese megacelebrity actress, Shuang Zheng, was called out on social media by her ex, Heng Zhang (whom I’ll call, as the court did, “Father”) that she had abandoned their two surrogacy-born children in the United States. In China, the scandal was not that Zheng had abandoned her babies, but that she had used a surrogate to have a child — or, in this case, two surrogates to have two children. After the news broke, Zheng’s career plummeted, she lost roles and lucrative sponsorships, including one with Prada.

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Celebrity, Surrogacy

White House Correspondent Kristen Welker Welcomes Her First Surrogate Child

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Kristen Welker is a new mom, embracing a daughter after the NBC News chief White House correspondent had shared her surrogacy story with the world.

Kristen Welker is enjoying the joy of motherhood. After two weeks, she and her husband, John Hughes, named their first surrogate daughter Margot.

“We are doing so well. The past two weeks have just been filled with pure joy!” Kristen told Weekend TODAY. Kristen and John informed back in April that they were expecting a baby with the help of a surrogate, and Margot Lane Welker Hughes was born on June 12 at 2:12 a.m

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Celebrity, Surrogacy

Amber Heard welcomes baby girl through surrogacy, reveals her name in heartfelt note

Source RepublicWorld.com

IMAGE: AMBERHEARD/Instagram

American actress Amber Heard is on cloud nine at the moment after she shared the news of her newborn through surrogacy. The actress took to Instagram and shared a picture while cradling the little one in her arms and penned a heartfelt note along to express her happiness. In the post, she revealed that she has named the daughter Oonagh Paige Heard and they welcomed her on April 8.

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