Can Two Men Have a Baby? Gay Parentg Optns

Contents:

• EVIL: GAY MEN REPORTEDLY HAVE THEIR BABY KILLED AFTER SURROGATE GETS BREAST CANCER
• GAY DADS SHARE HOW THEY FEED THEIR BABI — AND WHY 'THERE SHOULD BE A MORE CLIVE APPROACH' TO THE BREASTFEEDG VS. FORMULA BATE
• CAN TWO MEN HAVE A BABY? GAY PARENTG OPTNS
• ARE WE BORN GAY?
• FOR GAY MEN, HAVG A BLOGIL CHILD N BE PLITED
• GAY BABI ARCHIVE
• WHY MY WIFE AND I DECID TO ABORT OUR UNBORN GAY SON
• CHILD DEVELOPMENT FAI WH GAY AND LBIAN PARENTS AND BELIEFS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY
• GAY BABY
• THE GAY PARENTG ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (GPAP) OF MEN HAVG BABI

EVIL: GAY MEN REPORTEDLY HAVE THEIR BABY KILLED AFTER SURROGATE GETS BREAST CANCER

In a heartbreakg revelatn shared by Live Actn Print Lila Rose, word has spread that two gay men hired a woman to serve as a surrogate mother for their child, only to orr the child killed when the woman was diagnosed wh breast ncer durg her pregnancy. Brtney Pearson was hired to create the gay uple’s “dream fay, ” as Rose put .

But the gay uple mand that their son be “immediately termated, " suggtg that they didn’t want to face the hassle and potential health effects of a baby born so prematurely. As Rose noted on her Twter feed, when Pearson refed to abort the child and even offered to adopt herself, the gays “threatened legal actn” and “mand a ath certifite.

GAY DADS SHARE HOW THEY FEED THEIR BABI — AND WHY 'THERE SHOULD BE A MORE CLIVE APPROACH' TO THE BREASTFEEDG VS. FORMULA BATE

As Rose explaed, the gay uple was wrong orrg their son be left for ad. It’s now bee a way for gay upl to reproduce and manipulate a woman’s body for their own selfish ga, and for children to be treated as modi to be bought, sold, or disrd.

CAN TWO MEN HAVE A BABY? GAY PARENTG OPTNS

In this se, Pearson was merely an cubator for the child and she, as well as the gay uple, should have never agreed to “play God” this way.

ARE WE BORN GAY?

Oh, and while we’re speakg the tth, two gay men should never be allowed to ntractually purchase a baby. Formula bate rag on, gay fathers — for whom the feedg qutn is pecially plex — are often left out of the nversatn. "Derek and Hector Del Valle of Gaville, Fla., have ed their Papi & Papa platform to chronicle their experience as gay dads to son Oliver Rye, who was livered via a gtatnal surrogate last month.

"A lack of breast k is not a gay/straight thg. ”While the Del Valle and Michael fai still have young babi at home, other gay dads are beyond the years of bottle feedg.

This is thanks large part to the growg number of adoptn and surrogacy optns available to gay upl today, pared to what was available a ago. Other optns for gay upl clu adoptn and foster re.

FOR GAY MEN, HAVG A BLOGIL CHILD N BE PLITED

And for gay upl, surrogacy mak that dream a realy. However, is still not possible for a gay uple to have a child g DNA om both fathers.

Will our child grow up to be gay or straight?

GAY BABI ARCHIVE

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But there were a signifint number of genr-nformg men who, nohels, veloped a gay or bisexual inty adulthood. Maybe we n agree that the image evoked by "born gay"—that ltle girl neonate appearg wearg overalls and graspg a toy tck—do not help thk through qutns of sexual sire and inty. But for gay men, this procs is plited and expensive.

WHY MY WIFE AND I DECID TO ABORT OUR UNBORN GAY SON

The procs tak about two years and sts around $200, 000 per child - and prospective gay fathers don't meet eligibily creria for most health surance plans' fertily benefs, although this is begng to change. Brent Monsr, MD, recently helped lead a study to document tails of how gay men e assisted reproductive technology to build their fai, cludg qutns such as how many children they wish to have and how often their efforts succeed. As a gay person growg up a nservative environment, this was a challenge I thought about.

I asked them how I uld start a fay as a gay man.

CHILD DEVELOPMENT FAI WH GAY AND LBIAN PARENTS AND BELIEFS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY

We don't take re of gay men... Your paper giv historil ntext for how shiftg attus toward LGBTQ fai have changed the climate for gay men who want to bee fathers.

There has been a lot of foc the scientific lerature on whether children turn out OK if they have gay parents. A gay uple New York State recently sued, sayg those creria are discrimatory.

GAY BABY

Why is important for the experienc of gay men seekg fertily re to be reflected the scientific lerature? Cisgenr gay men are almost never clud this rearch, so as physicians we don't know anythg about their characteristics as reproductive health patients, even basic rmatn such as their mographics, clil cisn-makg patterns or out. Our paper ed data om one of the very few fertily benef pani that do offer fertily verage to gay men.

THE GAY PARENTG ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (GPAP) OF MEN HAVG BABI

That gave a wdow to a natnal group of 119 cisgenr men, cludg five sgle men and 57 gay upl, who uniquely had fertily benefs. It's important to keep md that our data reflect the experienc of dividuals who n afford reproductive medil re bee their employer-sponsored fertily benefs ver , and that is still an unual suatn for gay men.

This data served as the foundatn for a grant applitn we've jt had approved to nduct a much larger populatn study that will give accs to rmatn on about 2, 000 embryo transfers annually gay men. A lot of people see a fertily doctor bee they have an unrlyg medil issue, whereas gay male upl ually have two possible sperm sourc, a young egg donor and a gtatnal rrier who has already had succsful pregnanci. I thk that, bee of the medil factors, birth rat for gay upl uld serve as a morn standard for evaluatg the succs of IVF labs.