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
- ITALY BEGS REMOVG GAY MOTHERS OM CHILDREN’S BIRTH CERTIFIT
- EVIL: GAY MEN REPORTEDLY HAVE THEIR BABY KILLED AFTER SURROGATE GETS BREAST CANCER
- 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
CAN TWO MEN HAVE A BABY? GAY PARENTG OPTNS
Stanford physicians have published the first study of gay men's experienc wh g assisted reproductive technology to have children. * gay couples having babies *
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.
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. For ee real time breakg news alerts sent straight to your box sign up to our breakg news emailsSign up to our ee breakg news emailsItaly has begun removg the nam of gay mothers om their children’s birth certifit, as part of the right-wg ernment’s crackdown on same-sex move after populist prime mister Grgia Meloni’s aln announced March that state agenci should no longer register the children of same-sex upl, a move that sparked protts Milan.
Dpe Ms Meloni parg herself to Brish Conservativ and nyg she is homophobic, her party rose to power wh tough rhetoric agast same-sex parentg and support for tradnal fai and moral valu. ”Her aln partner, Matteo Salvi, of the far-right League party, had prevly lled gay parents “unnatural” while the ernment opposed a Bssels plan for a parenthood certifite that would be valid across the EU.
ITALY BEGS REMOVG GAY MOTHERS OM CHILDREN’S BIRTH CERTIFIT
Geic rearch is advancg to the day when gay upl uld fulfill their dreams of havg children related to them both. * gay couples having babies *
Gay upl are forced to go abroad if they want children, as they are banned om accsg reproductive medil treatment such as IVF and surrogacy is also prohibed. 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.
EVIL: GAY MEN REPORTEDLY HAVE THEIR BABY KILLED AFTER SURROGATE GETS BREAST CANCER
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.
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.
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. Oh, and while we’re speakg the tth, two gay men should never be allowed to ntractually purchase a baby.
FOR GAY MEN, HAVG A BLOGIL CHILD N BE PLITED
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.
‘WE ARE EXPECTED TO BE OK WH NOT HAVG CHILDREN’: HOW GAY PARENTHOOD THROUGH SURROGACY BEME A BATTLEGROUND
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. 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. 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.