‘We are expected to be OK wh not havg children’: how gay parenthood through surrogacy beme a battleground | Surrogacy | The Guardian

Contents:

• FERTILY CLIC RPONDS AFTER GAY COUPLE ALLEG WRONG SEX EMBRYO WAS IMPLANTED
• DID A GAY COUPLE 'CELEBRATE THE WORLD'S FIRST ANAL BIRTH'?
• DISVER ABOUTTHE GLANCEPRT EDNSUBSCRIBELOGNEWSSURROGATE MOTHER THREATENED BY GAY COUPLE TO ABORT BABY AFTER CANCER DIAGNOSIS, BLOCKED FROM OFFERG CHILD UP FOR ADOPTN
• GAY COUPLE DEMANDS SURROGATE MOTHER WH CANCER ABORT BABY
• THIS GAY MAN IS PREGNANT WH HIS HBAND’S BABY
• ‘WE ARE EXPECTED TO BE OK WH NOT HAVG CHILDREN’: HOW GAY PARENTHOOD THROUGH SURROGACY BEME A BATTLEGROUND

FERTILY CLIC RPONDS AFTER GAY COUPLE ALLEG WRONG SEX EMBRYO WAS IMPLANTED

But then when we read the fe prt, we saw – wa a mute, this verage is only for people havg heterosexual sex, ” said Goil, who liv New York a growg number of same-sex upl turn to trtere sematn (IUI) and vro fertilizatn (IVF) to have children, many say they’re enunterg entrenched equaly how benefs are provid by health surers and surance pani more than a dozen stat offer no-st fertily treatments for straight upl who stggle to get pregnant, they often refe to ver those same servic for lbian or gay upl until they’ve paid out of pocket for up to a and Caplan spent nearly $50, 000 of savgs to have their son Avi, who is a year old. ”The se is currently pendg feral district Maggipto, left, 37, and Corey Brisk, right, 34, have filed a plat agast the Cy of New York wh the Equal Employment Opportuny Commissn, allegg discrimatn fertily benefs for cy NewsFor gay men who want their own kids through surrogacy, n be even more plited and Brisk, 34, and Nicholas Maggipto, 37, of Brooklyn, New York, say neher their health surance nor Brisk’s employer, the Cy of New York, would ver any sts of fertily treatment need to get a surrogate pregnant.

”The plat remas pendg at Brisk and Nick Maggipto of Brooklyn, New York, are believed to be the first gay uple the U. Mark Leondir, medil director and founr of Reproductive Medice Associat of Connecticut and Gay Parents to Be.

Or 's a gay uple that needs both an egg donor and a surrogate, and vro fertilizatn.

DID A GAY COUPLE 'CELEBRATE THE WORLD'S FIRST ANAL BIRTH'?

Same-Sex Male CouplWh a gay male, the first qutn is whether he has a normal sperm unt, Leondir says. Gay male upl face much higher expens, among them surrogate and donor pensatn, IVF treatment and surrogacy agency fe.

DISVER ABOUTTHE GLANCEPRT EDNSUBSCRIBELOGNEWSSURROGATE MOTHER THREATENED BY GAY COUPLE TO ABORT BABY AFTER CANCER DIAGNOSIS, BLOCKED FROM OFFERG CHILD UP FOR ADOPTN

In his clic, he says, succs rat for gay male upl who pursue pregnancy g a gtatnal rrier is greater than 70% on their first try.

Rpondg to a gay uple's lawsu that alleg their wish to have a son were thwarted when a female embryo was wrongly implanted their gtatnal rrier, a spokman for a Pasana-based vro fertilizatn clic said Wednday every child has "value and limls potential regardls of genr. HRC "specifilly targets'' fai the LGBTQ muny and s webse says the clic is "dited to helpg the gay and lbian muny achieve their dreams of parenthood, '' the su stat. IVF is a particularly expensive procs for male gay upl who mt arrange for their children to be rried to term by a gtatnal rrier, the su stat.

As their ltle one grows, 's Am's hope that "we won't be talkg about gay upl like we do now.

GAY COUPLE DEMANDS SURROGATE MOTHER WH CANCER ABORT BABY

"We won't be gay parents, we'll jt be parents, " Adya adds.

Acrdg to Pearson, followg a full body MRI that revealed the severy of her ncer, the gay uple who hired her as a surrogate rorted to legal threats to prsure her to termatg the pregnancy.

Surrogate Mother Threatened by Gay Couple to Abort Baby after Cancer DiagnosisThe ial plan was for Pearson to unrgo a form of chemotherapy treatment that was safe for the pregnancy, acrdg to the Daily Mail. Pearson claims the gay uple then sisted the baby be "immediately termated" and "erased", out of ncern the baby would have signifint health issu if born before 34 weeks. Bee this baby boy shared DNA wh one of the gay men, they claimed that they had "ownership" over him (and the state of California supported them this) and th stopped him om receivg lifavg re.

THIS GAY MAN IS PREGNANT WH HIS HBAND’S BABY

”Lahl also said that one of Pearson’s doctors was aware of a fay terted adoptg the baby, but the gay uple who had employed Pearson cled the offer and “asked that no life-savg measur be performed on the baby if he was born alive. The Gay uple, who never saw the baby, sisted the child be cremated. A pregnant gay man has opened up about his rare pregnancy wh his hband’s baby.

Mr Ree said: “I thk there are a lot of gay upl who would love to have their own blogil child whout terventn or assistance om other people. Biff, who is a cis gay man, said his partner’s anatomy was never a major issue. ” Wh marriage equaly won years ago, they expected to be able to have a nventnal married months before their weddg, a targeted ad om an anisatn lled Gay Parents to Be land Maggipto’s Instagram feed, offerg ee nsultatns wh a fertily doctor who’d give them “the whole ndown” on how they uld start a fay.

‘WE ARE EXPECTED TO BE OK WH NOT HAVG CHILDREN’: HOW GAY PARENTHOOD THROUGH SURROGACY BEME A BATTLEGROUND

“We had the appotment and we were 100% on the same page – let’s move forward wh this, ” says ’s when they first beme aware of the eye-waterg st of blogil parenthood for gay men. That meant straight people and lbians workg for the Cy of New York would have the sts of IVF vered, but gay male upl uld never be isn’t an oversight, ’s discrimatn, Brisk says. If they w, employers and health surers across the US will be unr prsure to change their polici to give gay men the same accs to fertily benefs as anyone else.

But their se has bee much bigger than one uple’s drive to start a fay: they have bee figureheads the battle for fertily rights for all gay men.