What Are Gay Coupl’ Optns for Havg Babi?

Contents:

• REPRODUCTIVE OPTNS FOR GAY COUPL AND SGLE MEN
• THE END OF GAYS: GAY MARRIAGE AND THE DECLE OF THE HOMOSEXUAL POPULATN

REPRODUCTIVE OPTNS FOR GAY COUPL AND SGLE MEN

When a uple is gay or lbian, they’re missg at least one sential piece of the nceptn puzzle.

Instead, most gay upl e a donor egg and a gtatnal rrier, or surrogate, who uld be a iend, fay member, or a woman the uple fd through an agency. Two s ago, many gay upl had to pretty much fo havg their own children bee fertily optns weren’t available to them. “That was our ‘cross to bear, ’” Leondir now, gay and lbian upl face emotnal, fancial, and legal hurdl.

THE END OF GAYS: GAY MARRIAGE AND THE DECLE OF THE HOMOSEXUAL POPULATN

”Jt fdg a fertily clic that works wh gay and lbian upl n be challengg. Clics the Midwt and South were ls likely to be clive than were clics the Northeast and a clic that’s experienced the procr lbian and gay upl e to nceive is important.

Insurance verage often don’t kick until a uple has had unprotected sex for at least 12 months whout nceivg, which leav out gay and lbian upl. Today, the ongog advancement and creasg availabily of assisted reproductive technologi (ART) make possible for gay upl and sgle men to have blogil children of their own, g many of the same cuttg-edge techniqu that have helped fertile heterosexual upl bee parents for s. For sgle men and gay male upl, assisted fertily typilly volv bg their own sperm wh donor eggs and enlistg eher a tradnal surrogate or a gtatnal surrogate to rry the pregnancy to term.

This review provis an overview of the historil signifince of assisted reproductn for gay men and women, discs current reproductive optns for same-sex upl, addrs psychosocial nsiratns unique to the upl, and reviews the current lerature addrsg medil and psychosocial aspects of same-sex reproductn.