In New York, a gay uple fightg to make their surers pay for fertily treatment have found themselv the middle of a culture war. What happens when the right to parenthood volv someone else’s body?
Contents:
- CAN TWO MEN HAVE A BABY? GAY PARENTG OPTNS
- DID A GAY COUPLE 'CELEBRATE THE WORLD'S FIRST ANAL BIRTH'?
- FOR GAY MEN, HAVG A BLOGIL CHILD N BE PLITED
- ‘WE ARE EXPECTED TO BE OK WH NOT HAVG CHILDREN’: HOW GAY PARENTHOOD THROUGH SURROGACY BEME A BATTLEGROUND
- GAY MEN: HOW TO HAVE A BLOGIL CHILD
CAN TWO MEN HAVE A BABY? GAY PARENTG OPTNS
Geic rearch is advancg to the day when gay upl uld fulfill their dreams of havg children related to them both. * gay couple has baby *
A gay or transgenr person’s optns for parentg clu:. Or, let’s say we have a gay cisgenr uple, Alex and Zack. Others may be ncerned that sgle men or gay male upl would have a harr time adoptg jt bee they are men, but this may not be te.
“For gay male sgl/upl, we have particularly easier the matchg procs, as there is no other mom 'replacg' the child’s birth mother and often get chosen quicker. 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.
DID A GAY COUPLE 'CELEBRATE THE WORLD'S FIRST ANAL BIRTH'?
Stanford physicians have published the first study of gay men's experienc wh g assisted reproductive technology to have children. * gay couple has baby *
Other optns for gay upl clu adoptn and foster re.
And for gay upl, surrogacy mak that dream a realy.
FOR GAY MEN, HAVG A BLOGIL CHILD N BE PLITED
When you’re an LGBT dividual wantg to add to your fay, you have a uple of paths available to you. We’ve listed the child optns for gay upl here. * gay couple has baby *
However, is still not possible for a gay uple to have a child g DNA om both fathers. Egg donatn and surrogacy allow two gay men to have children geilly related to one partner and the egg donor, but not to both. It’s been one of the tes of anti-gay activists for s: “Two men n’t have a blogil child, and two women n’t have one eher.
” For some anti-gay people, that seems to make the relatnships somehow wrong, as though any relatnship that n’t rult a child should somehow be forbidn. Anti-gay forc will not want to hear this news, but science will ntue to explore an attempt to expla blogy. Jt like straight upl, many gay men and lbians are eager to have a geic relatnship wh their children.
At tim, I’ve taken sperm om one gay man and matched wh the eggs of his partner’s sister to create a stronger geic bond between the uple and their child.
‘WE ARE EXPECTED TO BE OK WH NOT HAVG CHILDREN’: HOW GAY PARENTHOOD THROUGH SURROGACY BEME A BATTLEGROUND
* gay couple has baby *
Relig and nservative lears around the world still vehemently oppose same sex marriage and homosexual acts, let alone a gay uple havg a child of their own. Studi have shown this, and I have seen first hand the hundreds of gay fai om around the world who I’ve helped to nceive.
And has helped people—gay and straight, black and whe, Christian, Jews, and Buddhists—to bee parents. Read next: Italian Polician Looks to Highlight Gay Rights by Gettg Married Canada. Myself and Stephan sudnly turned to a gay uple wh a baby, as opposed to me beg a pregnant man.
GAY MEN: HOW TO HAVE A BLOGIL CHILD
But for gay men, this procs is plited and expensive. 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.