Dr. Carrie Wambach’s son Cole was born in 2017 via surrogate. Here Carrie and her surrogate Jessica Busman share their story. Jessica now owns The Surrogacy Partnership Agency which works frequently with RPMG.…
As pride month comes to an end, it’s nice to hear that more companies are expanding fertility benefits to their LGBTQ employees. These changes help LGBTQ employees access reproductive benefits that were previously only tailored to straight couples.
In the past, many companies and insurance providers limited access to fertility benefits to those employees that met a strict definition of …
Due to the high cost of fertility treatment in the United States, more and more women are choosing to go abroad for treatments such as IVF, egg donation, and gestational surrogacy. Unfortunately, fertility treatment in the U.S. can be very expensive and it is not covered by most patients’ insurance plans. Fertility treatment can be cost prohibitive for many patients …
In recent years, surrogate pregnancies have steadily been on the rise. Surrogates have allowed many couples to have a genetic child when they would have otherwise been unable to. Some of the many reasons why people opt to use a surrogate include it being medically impossible for a woman to carry her own pregnancy, pregnancy risks posing a danger to …
According to Bloomberg News, a paradox has emerged in China: As the country finally relaxes its one-child policy, factors like lower sperm counts, later pregnancies and other health barriers are making it harder for many to get pregnant. As a result, businesses from China to Australia, and even California are lining up to help — and profit from — …
New legislation in Hawaii is being proposed that would require insurance companies to cover the cost of fertility treatment for same-sex couples. Hawaii is one of eight states that requires insurance companies to cover the cost of in vitro fertilization, but this law only applies to married heterosexual couples. Currently, with the way the law is written, IVF is only …
The use of a gestational surrogate to carry a baby for a woman who is unable to carry has raised many controversial issues over the years. Recently an Op-ED collection in the New York Times examined some of these controversial issues from four different perspectives.
“People unable to bear children have increasingly turned to women who bear children for them, …
While surrogacy is far more accepted in the United States than in most countries, and increasing rapidly (more than 2,000 babies will be born through it here this year), it remains, like abortion, a polarizing and charged issue. There is nothing resembling a national consensus on how to handle it and no federal law, leaving the states free to do …
