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They Put Their Surrogacy Funds in an Escrow Account. It's Gone

The Journal recounts there's no regulation or oversight of the escrow companies involved

(Newser) - Parents can easily spend north of $150,000 to have a child through a surrogate, and many turn to specialty escrow companies who handle the money: vouching that expenses sync with the terms of the contract and doling out the parents' payments to the surrogate so long as they do....

A Surrogacy Gone Wrong Is a Warning About Industry

Legal fight after baby's death in utero illustrates the lack of regulation

(Newser) - Surrogacy is a $5 billion annual industry in the US, but a story by Emi Nietfeld at Wired illustrates that it's also surprisingly unregulated. Nietfeld relates the tale of a surrogacy that ended with the baby's death in utero—and the nasty legal fight that has ensued. The...

Cops Investigating Couple With 21 Kids, Many Born by Surrogate

Children are in custody of authorities

(Newser) - Twenty-one children are in the custody of a California child-welfare agency while authorities, including the FBI, investigate a Los Angeles-area couple and whether they misled surrogate mothers around the country, the AP reports. Fifteen children were removed from the couple's opulent home in Arcadia after an abuse allegation in...

She Gave Birth After IVF, Then Had to Give Up Baby

Krystena Murray files suit after fertility clinic implanted someone else's embryo inside her

(Newser) - A Georgia woman who gave birth a little over a year ago to a long-hoped-for baby had to give him up just months later—because the fertility clinic that had helped her get pregnant implanted another couple's embryo. That's per a new civil lawsuit filed Tuesday in state...

Italy Blocks LGBTQ+ Couples From Becoming Parents

New law against surrogacy abroad is punishable by $1M fine, up to 2 years in prison

(Newser) - After banning couples from having a baby through a surrogate, Italy is taking the further step of banning couples from traveling abroad to do the same thing. Though experts say 90% of couples who use surrogacy in Italy are heterosexual, the law proposed by Italy's far-right governing party, which...

Gay Couple Sues Over Denial of IVF Coverage in a First

Class action seeks reimbursement for thousands rejected for benefit by New York City

(Newser) - Corey Briskin and Nicholas Maggipinto had planned to have children for a decade, since before they were engaged. They decided to employ in vitro fertilization, in which an egg and sperm are combined in a lab. Next, they'd turn to an agency to find a surrogate who would have...

Transgender Christians Slam 'Hurtful' New Vatican Document

Declaration approved by Pope Francis says surrogacy, gender-affirming surgery are affronts to human dignity

(Newser) - The Vatican on Monday declared gender-affirming surgery and surrogacy as grave threats to human dignity, putting them on par with abortion and euthanasia as practices that violate God's plan for human life. The Vatican's doctrine office issued "Infinite Dignity," a 20-page declaration that's been in...

Michigan Drops Nation's Only Paid Surrogacy Ban

New laws protect those using in vitro fertilization, also

(Newser) - Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Monday signed into law bills giving protections to the people of Michigan who want to use paid surrogacy and in vitro fertilization to expand their families. The "package of common sense" also will "ensure LGBTQ-plus parents are treated equally," the Democrat said, per...

For This Nearly Extinct Rhino, a Chance to Bounce Back

Successful embryo transfer into southern white rhino could bode well for northern white rhinos

(Newser) - A rhinoceros was impregnated through embryo transfer in the first successful use of a method that conservationists said might later make it possible to save the nearly extinct northern white rhino. In testing with another subspecies, the researchers created a southern white rhino embryo in a lab from an egg...

Pope Wants a Universal Ban on 'Despicable' Practice

Francis puts surrogate motherhood on blast

(Newser) - Pope Francis called Monday for a universal ban on what he called the "despicable" practice of surrogate motherhood, as he included the "commercialization" of pregnancy in an annual speech listing threats to global peace and human dignity. In a foreign policy address to ambassadors accredited to the Holy...

Wild Twist in the Surrogate Baby Case That's Roiling Spain

68-year-old Spanish actress now says surrogate baby is her granddaughter

(Newser) - A heated debate in Spain triggered by a 68-year-old celebrity who was reported to have used a surrogate mother in Miami to have a baby took a twist Wednesday when the woman announced that the baby is actually the daughter of her son who died of cancer in 2020. Actress...

Big News From Nick Jonas, Priyanka Chopra

They're new parents, thanks to a surrogate

(Newser) - In recent weeks, whispers have abounded that Nick Jonas and wife Priyanka Chopra may be headed for splitsville, after Chopra dropped the "Jonas" from her Instagram handle. Doesn't seem like that's the case, as they've just shared the happy news that they're new parents, via...

Anderson Cooper's Mother Lobbied to Be His Surrogate

Picturing the tabloid headlines, the CNN anchor declined Gloria Vanderbilt's offer

(Newser) - Anderson Cooper interviews people for a living, and he says he's used to keeping a straight face when they say crazy things. Plus, he points out, "I grew up with Gloria Vanderbilt." But Vanderbilt threw her son for a loop with an idea she had when she...

Law Forces Couple to Adopt Their Own Newborn Twins

They were denied parental rights under Michigan's strict anti-surrogacy law

(Newser) - Michigan couple Jordan and Tammy Myers are being forced to adopt their own biological children, and they say they want state law to change so that no other couple has to go through the same "demoralizing" ordeal. After breast cancer left Tammy Myers unable to have children, surrogate Lauren...

3 Cheetahs, 2 Cubs, One 'Big Breakthrough'

Birth via surrogacy allows for greater genetic diversity

(Newser) - Ohio has welcomed two new scientific marvels—the first ever cheetah cubs born via in vitro fertilization. Cheetahs are a vulnerable species, with only 7,500 left in the wild. They also have low genetic diversity owing to a mass die-off about 10,000 years ago. That's made breeding...

Woman Dies Giving Birth to Another Couple's Baby

Michelle Reaves was on her second surrogate pregnancy for the same family

(Newser) - Michelle Reaves was delivering her second baby as a surrogate mother for the same family—but complications piled up during the birth last Wednesday, and the San Diego, California, mother of two died. The baby was delivered safely, People reports. "After Michelle and Chris were done having their own...

Woman Meets Her 'Egg,' Calls It 'Mind-Bending'

Amy Throckmorton meets college student born from her egg nearly 20 years ago

(Newser) - On Monday, Amy Throckmorton posted what she said was a "funny story" on Facebook , and it was definitely a doozy. "In college I was an egg donor," the married California mom of three wrote. "Today, I met that egg." The egg in question: University of...

A Terrible Loss, Then Something 'Sweet'

Boy born from surrogate in China after parents died in car crash four years earlier

(Newser) - A Chinese couple have had their parenthood dream realized, though nearly five years after their deaths. A baby boy was born to a surrogate in December from a fertilized embryo frozen by the couple. It was to have been implanted in the womb of Liu Xi, but she and her...

28-Year-Old Single Dad of 16 Close to Getting All His Kids

Thai court awards Mitsutoki Shigeta sole parental rights

(Newser) - The son of a Japanese IT billionaire reportedly wanted a big family and set out to get it via surrogate. Now, Mitsutoki Shigeta, 28, is about to gain custody of all 16 kids he is known to have fathered via Thai surrogate mothers. The BBC explains Shigeta grabbed headlines in...

When You Give Up Every Penny You Have for a Baby

Kelli Auerbach charts her experience with infertility and now surrogacy

(Newser) - Kelli Auerbach ditched her car, vacations, any social outing that required money, and even her own place for six months—living for free with friends in a different state—all so she could stockpile money. She needs a lot, tens of thousands, in order to pay another woman to carry...

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