Gay couple - ‘Adopted children need both genders to relate to’

Gay adoption will create an undesirable family structure for developing children’s gender identity, according to three mothers who are concerned about the Bill granting marriage rights to same-sex couples.
The Civil Unions Bill presented in October will allow gay partners to adopt children together but these women feel the discussion is being rushed and children’s rights are being ignored.

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Chris Christie Drops Challenge to Same-sex Marriage in New Jersey

What a great start to the week! It’s always wonderful to wake up to this kind of groundbreaking news. Read on for more information about this fantastic turn of events from NBC News:

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie abandoned the state’s legal challenge to same-sex marriage on Monday, hours after gay couples began tying the knot in the wake of a court ruling.
Christie said that while he disagreed with the court’s decision, it “left no ambiguity,” making New Jersey the 14th state in the nation to legalize same-sex marriage.
Couples began taking advantage of the new law as soon as they could. Senator-elect Cory Booker officiated at seven weddings in the rotunda at Newark City Hall.
“It is officially past midnight, marriage is now equal in New Jersey,” Booker said to applause and cheers.
Booker, who had declined to officiate at weddings as mayor of New Jersey until same-sex couples could be included, pronounced the occasion “one of the most magical moments” of his life.

Mayors in cities and towns including Newark, Jersey City, Red Bank, Asbury Park and Lambertville opened their city halls late Sunday to marry couples as soon as the state’s 72-hour waiting period for licenses was over.
When Booker asked if anyone objected to the marriage of the night’s first couple — retired advertising executive Joseph Panessidi and LGBTQ educator Orville Bell — a protester yelled that the marriages were “unlawful in the eyes of God and Jesus Christ,” The Associated Press reported.

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My Two Dads, My Two Moms: Insights On Gay And Lesbian Family Building by The American Fertility Association

It’s a palpable longing, the one for a house full of kids and all the trappings of parenthood. It’s powerful. Perhaps the desire is one you’ve had ever since you were a kid. Maybe the family pangs are of recent vintage, snagging you when your friends, siblings, neighbors or third cousins once removed started having broods of their own.
It was pretty easy for them. Their family building is happily anticipated, a given that’s enshrined in our culture. But it’s not the same for you. Your sexual orientation sent your dream of 2.4 kids and a dog off to the aptly named Never Never Land.
Whatever your path to coming out, it may have meant channeling your parent imperative into aunt, uncle or godparent status. Because any scenario but the usual—a straight couple and baby makes three—seemed out of reach. There didn’t appear to be a whole lot of soccer dads or Nascar moms.
Well, it’s a whole new world. Not simple, but ripe with possibilities.
More and more gay men and lesbians are having kids. Some choose the adoption route. Others are having their own genetically-linked offspring through medical intervention – from intrauterine insemination to sophisticated Assisted Reproductive Technologies. They’re using surrogates, egg and sperm donors (donor gametes). They’re forging new ways of having the children that many heterosexual couples take for granted. This fact sheet is dedicated to helping you through the thicket of issues that you’ll confront as a gay man or lesbian if you do choose to make a baby with you own gametes. It’s a primer that lays out the questions about making the first choice—between biological and adoptive family building—and some of the criteria and consequences of your reproductive possibilities.

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Surrogacy Advice for Gay and Lesbian Parents by Katharine Swan

Using a surrogate is an excellent way for gay men or lesbians who can’t bear children to become parents. Many gays and lesbians prefer to use a family member as a surrogate, as a solution to concerns about money and discrimination: Not only is it more expensive for an agency to match you up with a surrogate, it can also be difficult and demeaning to try to deal with agencies that are prejudiced against gays and lesbians.

While using a family member as a surrogate makes some things easier, it also means that you will need to take over the agency’s role and arrange everything on your own. Here are five things you need to be sure you don’t overlook when making arrangements for a surrogate.

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Fertility clinics help more gay couples have kids

Fertility clinics help more gay couples have kids

Fertility clinics have put a new twist on how to make babies: A "two-mom" approach that lets female same-sex couples share the biological role. One woman's eggs are mixed in a lab dish with donor sperm, then implanted in the other woman, who carries the pregnancy.

A New York doctor described 18 of these cases Tuesday at a fertility conference in Boston that featured other research on ways to help same-sex couples have children. Dr. Alan Copperman is medical director of Reproductive Medicine Associates, a New York City clinic that does the "two-mom" approach.

A New York couple - Sarah Marshall, 40, a recruiter for law firms, and Maggie Leigh Marshall, 35, a real estate broker - used it to have their daughter, Graham, now 18 months old. Maggie's eggs were used to make embryos that were implanted in Sarah, and both women are listed as parents on the birth certificate.

"It allowed us both to participate," Sarah Marshall said. "I had to mentally and psychologically give up the idea of, is she going to look like me or my family. But from the time I started carrying her up to now, she is definitely mine."

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Wednesday, September 11, 2013

This is the end of our Mumbai adventure…

…but the beginning of a new one as we have made it back home! In this post (which may possibly be the last one), I will describe what happened with the FRRO (Foreigner Regional Registration Offices). Well, surprisingly, not much happened. We went to the FRRO to apply for an exit permit for our little bundle of Joy. The whole process only took us about 30 minutes. One working day later, our exit permit was granted. The catch was that the exit permit was only valid for 2 days and all the flights were fully booked, except for one which was scheduled to leave only a few hours after our exit permit was granted. Our adrenaline went up, we packed as fast as we could, and we took off. The end. We are exhausted but very happy about beginning a new chapter. Those who know me personally will be able to follow my new adventures on my personal blog.

Israeli Lesbian Couple Refused Surrogacy Procedure

The Israeli court clearly needs to rethink its views on surrogacy for singles and gay couples. Hopefully Liat Moske’s and Dana Glisko’s appeal will be successful. Read more from BioNews below.

A court in Israel has rejected a lesbian couple’s request to undergo a surrogacy procedure in the country. Liat Moshe and Dana Glisko, who have been in a relationship for ten years, rejected a proposal to have only part of the procedure performed in Israel, saying that the law is discriminatory.
The couple wanted Glisko to be implanted with Moshe’s fertilised eggs. However, current law in Israel only allows heterosexual couples to undergo surrogacy procedures. Homosexual couples wanting surrogacy are required to go overseas.
A seven-justice panel of the High Court of Justice rejected the couple’s petition to have a child by surrogacy without having to go overseas for the procedure. It ordered that the couple could have the egg extracted in Israel but that it must be implanted overseas, in accordance with a proposal made by the health ministry, reports Haaretz.
‘Everyone understands that the health ministry has taken a very significant step considering the law’s provisions’, the Supreme Court’s President, Justice Asher Grunis, said. ‘Therefore, it’s worth seriously considering the proposal’.
However, Moshe is a career official in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and claims that, as an officer, she is forbidden from having surgery abroad.
‘For a whole year now it’s been hard for me to come and wear a uniform and represent the state, because I’m fighting the state today’, said Moshe. ‘Aside from all the treatments I’m undergoing, which are hard to bear, I’m here because I feel I’m being discriminated against’.
Moshe added that the IDF would not pay for the procedure abroad, which lawyers representing the State said would cost around $3,000.

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Single Tampa man uses surrogate to become a father

TAMPA --
If you are a single man and waiting to have children, there are few options.
You could adopt or, with modern technology, you could find a surrogate mother. That's what a Tampa man did and he says it is the best decision he has ever made.
Single father Stafanos August has his hands full with not one, but two babies. His twins Nicholas and Alexandria are four months old.
"I met an attorney down here and thought about adoption and she opened up the world of surrogacy for me," August said. "Since I was like 10 years old I always wanted to be a dad, and so I decided to do it."
While raising infant twins alone is rarely easy, August says it is everything he expected and more.
"(I) burp one, put the next one down, so I need to be 10 steps ahead of them for sure," said August, who was able to choose his donor and the woman who would carry his baby



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Single man's unconventional path to fatherhood

Louis DeFilippi always wanted to be a father.
In his 50s, recently divorced and with no serious relationships on the horizon, the Palatine man decided that if he was ever going to have a child, he had to take charge of the situation. He started working with a reproductive endocrinologist, pored over a dozen profiles of egg donors and interviewed a few potential surrogates who might carry the baby to term, all in a quest to be a dad



"I always wanted that family continuity," said the now 64-year-old, while his 7-year-old daughter, Anna, did somersaults in the living room, enjoying the first heady days of summer vacation. "It was the best decision I ever made."
Although surrogacy and fertility treatments are becoming increasingly common for single women and gay couples, a single man pushing the frontiers of fertility is still extremely rare, said experts. Advanced reproductive technologies have put fertility within reach of individuals who never before had such choices. But ethical questions remain about whether access should be granted to anyone, regardless of age, who can come up with the hefty fee.

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Supreme Court strikes down DOMA; rules it interferes with states, ‘dignity’ of same-sex marriages

The Supreme Court has struck down a federal law barring the recognition of same-sex marriage in a split decision, ruling that the law violates the rights of gays and lesbians and intrudes into states' rights to define and regulate marriage. The court also dismissed a challenge to California's gay marriage ban, ruling that supporters of the ban did not have the legal standing, or right, to appeal a lower court's decision striking down Proposition 8.

Justice Anthony Kennedy, the court's conservative-leaning swing vote with a legal history of supporting gay rights, joined his liberal colleagues in the decision, which will dramatically expand the rights of married gay couples in the country to access more than 1,000 federal benefits and responsibilities of marriage previously denied them.

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Same sex couple news - Crowd awaits Supreme Court's gay marriage decision

WASHINGTON -- A crowd thronged to the plaza of the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday to await two major gay marriage decisions.
Most of the crowd that spilled across the sidewalk in front of the court were gay marriage supporters. One person held a rainbow flag and another wore a rainbow shawl, and a number of people carried signs with messages including "2 moms make a right" and "'I Do' Support Marriage Equality." Others wore T-shirts including "Legalize gay" and "It's time for marriage equality." At several points the crowd began a call and response: "What do we want? Equality. When do we want it? Now." Read more...

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Australian Christian Lobby shocker: 'Gay sex could be taught in schools'

THE Australian Christian lobby has issued a bizarre statement arguing that same sex marriage could lead to a new "stolen generation", and would inevitably lead to children being taught the mechanics of homosexual sex in school sex education classes.
In a rambling statement, the Lobby's managing director Lyle Shelton said Kevin Rudd's overnight change-of-mind ignored the consequence of "robbing children of their biological identity through same-sex surrogacy and other assisted reproductive technologies".

"Marriage is not just an affectionate relationship between two people regardless of gender," Mr Shelton said. "Marriage has always been about providing stability and biological identity for children wherever possible.

"What Mr Rudd has not considered is whether or not it is right for children to be taken through technology from their biological parent so that 'married' same-sex couples can fulfil their desires."



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LOS ANGELES — Salt Lake City: the gay parenting capital of the United States?
Unexpected as it may sound, a new study finds that the Utah capital and its outskirts have the nation's highest percentage of gay or lesbian couples raising children.
Among couples of the same sex in the Salt Lake City area, more than 1 in 4 are rearing children, the analysis of census data reveals.
That fact may seem at odds with perceptions that San Francisco and New York are the centers of gay and lesbian life. Pop culture depicts gays and lesbians turning to adoption, sperm banks or surrogacy to form families in decidedly liberal cities such as Los Angeles.
But the reality for gay parents can be very different, said Gary J. Gates, the researcher behind the new estimates from the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law.

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Foreign gay couples can't have surrogate babies in India, says Home Ministry directive

Foreign couples in live-in relationships, same-sex couples and singles will not be able to have surrogate babies in India anymore.

A Home Ministry directive on surrogacy is badly affecting foreigners seeking to become parents in India through surrogacy. The Home Ministry has asked the External Affairs Ministry to issue visas only to opposite sex couples seeking to have a surrogate baby in the country. The ministry has further said such couples should be married for at least two years.

Though there is no law on surrogacy in India, the Indian Council of Medical Research has drafted Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Act, 2010 which deals with the issue. According to the Bill, assisted reproductive technology will be available to all persons, including single persons, married couples and unmarried couples, a member of the drafting committee said.

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Gays news - Calif. bill would require insurance to cover infertility treatments for gay, lesbian couples Via @ WeeCare Surrogacy

California lawmakers have submitted legislation that would require group insurance to cover gay and lesbian infertility treatments just as they do heterosexual. The problem is, the law would apply to anyone, regardless of gender.
The bill doesn’t require a homosexual couple to go through any types of treatment or methods, such as heterosexual sex, surrogacy, artificial insemination, etc. Rather, the mere inability to conceive a pregnancy or carry a pregnancy while having active sexual relations is sufficient to show a need for treatment.


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Two Guys from San Diego on their way to Parenthood

 

I will try to open the first act of our blog by introducing ourselves with a few words. We are a gay couple from San Diego, and we are on our way to fulfilling one of our dreams: becoming parents. After a few ups and downs, we came to the conclusion that Surrogacy would be our best option and, after a few more ups and downs, we decided that we would hire WeeCare Partners USA to fulfill our dream.

We are now 18 weeks pregnant.

Surrogacy in India is not for the faint of heart. Like all the people who are currently going through the same experience, we have had our fair share of stress, but we have met wonderful people along the way...

First of all, we have met another San Diego gay couple who just had two baby boys. They gave us valuable advice and connected us to Victor Hui Wee’s agency (WeeCare Partners USA, service agency for India Surrogacy). Victor has basically enabled our dream, connecting us with more wonderful people, such as Dr. Meenakshi Puranik who is supervising the whole process. We are very thankful to have met such an amazing and talented woman. We also have to thank our egg donation agency and our egg donor, who has been wonderful and charming. We would also like to mention our driver, Sachin, who has guided us through the chaos of Mumbai’s traffic.
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Will and Dan Neville-Rehbehn are baking up a storm to pay for surrogacy

Then comes an online bake sale to pay for an egg donor, a surrogate and in vitro fertilization.
In the kitchen of their snug, rented loft off U Street, Will and Dan Neville-Rehbehn, a married gay couple, are “baking for babies,” as their Web site calls their efforts to raise the money they need to start a family.
Tonight, they’re baking a Margarita Layer Cake that will sell for $70.
“I need 12 cups of powered sugar!” Will, 30, calls out to Dan, 29, who is watching their red Kitchen­Aid mixer whip tequila-lime buttercream frosting on high.
“Got it,” responds Dan, double-checking the recipe on the couple’s iPad.

The multilayered vanilla cake also calls for “margarita liquid cheesecake” — a filling made with agave-based 1800 Tequila Reserva Silver — and “roasted corn tortilla-chip crunch,” which are alternated in an 11-step assembly process.
Most of Will’s recipes are similarly labor-intensive. Take his Best Chocolate Chip Cookies Ever, which must age in the fridge for several days before they are baked. A dozen of the hand-size sweet-and-salty treats goes for $45.
The pair liken their fundraiser to an old-fashioned American bake sale — the Web site is called “Will’s Bake Sale!!!” — with a few 21st-century twists. And while gay marriage, surrogacy and the Internet are all modern phenomena, the human desire for baked goods is not. And the ­Neville-Rehbehns are counting on it.

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Rainbow families caught in ethical storm

While France remains divided after the approval of a “marriage for all” law, the Swiss parliament is also reconsidering gay rights, focusing this time on adoption. A proposed legislative change is raising as many ethical as scientific questions.

“Various studies in the United States show there are no differences in the sexual orientation, construction of identity or social representation of children raised by two people of the same sex,” says Nicolas Favez, a psychology professor at Geneva University.



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Jews vocal on both sides of France’s gay marriage debate

JTA) -- Wide-eyed and smiley, Elay-Gabriel seems utterly unaffected by the French media’s sudden interest in him.
A dozen French journalists have visited the 18-month-old in recent months because he is trapped in a sort of legal limbo: He cannot obtain citizenship because the state does not recognize children born to surrogates abroad as French, even if one of their biological parents is a French national.
Complicating matters is the fact that Elay-Gabriel is being raised by two gay Parisians -- Israeli-born Eran and his partner, Jean-Louis. (The family asked that their last name not be published.) Gay couples cannot adopt in France, meaning that surrogacy -- and the citizenship uncertainties which follow -- are inevitable for gays wishing to raise children.
"We learned singles practically can’t adopt, and gays are all singles in France because we can’t marry,” Eran said

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Men want kids on their own

A GROWING number of men are tackling fatherhood on their own, turning to overseas surrogates to create their "dream" families.
Support group Surrogacy Australia said single men were longing to be dads and were not deterred by a commercial surrogacy ban brought in during 2010 to curb the exploitation of poor women.
Jake Docker, 27, last week brought home his three-week-old twin daughters Pippa and Millie, born to an Indian surrogate on January 8.
"I just wanted to be a dad as long as I could remember," the public servant from Petersham said. Mr Docker said he had not broken the law because he began the process before the state ban on commercial surrogacy came into effect.


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