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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