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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