By Christina Caron | New York Times | April 18, 2020
After New York’s legalization of gestational surrogacy arrangements in April 2020, the New York Times has republished this article covering the debate about the bill in 2019 as well as information about surrogacy process, policy, and risks and personal stories about surrogates and intended parents.
By | Washington Post | April 16, 2020
As the State Department does not consider surrogacy a life-or-death emergency, this article explores how families are navigating international surrogacy arrangements with travel to the United States, including arranging passports and travel back to home countries.
By Beth Greenfield | Yahoo News | April 13, 2020
In this article and video interview, Chelsea Hernandez, who is in the midst of her second journey as a gestational surrogate, shares her experience as a surrogate during the COVID-19 pandemic, finding this time around to be much stranger and uncertain than the first.
By Libby Dowsett | The Oregonian/OregonLive | April 5, 2020
A surrogate mother in Oregon explains how the COVID-19 pandemic and travel restrictions have drastically changed the birth plan for the child, whose parents are in China. In this article, new questions arise, such as when will the child’s parents be able to come to America and who will be the child’s guardian in the meantime?
By Orlando Crowcroft & Marta Rodriguez Martinez | Euronews | April 4, 2020
in this article, a couple navigate travel restrictions after their son was born to a surrogate in Ukraine. With Ukraine’s borders closed, the couple details how they are processing their son’s UK citizenship and other obstacles they faced in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
By David Dodge | New York Times | April 1, 2020
How has coronavirus impacted surrogacy, adoption, and foster care? This article explores how global travel restrictions have left surrogacy agencies in the United States scrambling for exemptions for their international clients — particularly for those working with surrogates who are scheduled to give birth in the next month or two.
By Sirin Kale | The Guardian | March 26, 2020
James Washington, his husband Rob, and their 11-day-old baby are stuck in an Airbnb in Portland, Oregon. Under normal circumstances, the Washingtons would have applied for a US passport for their son, taken him home and applied for a legal order to recognize their parentage through the British courts. But as this article covers, COVID-19 travel restrictions have complicated gestational surrogacy arrangements for these parents and many others.
By Alison Motluck | HeyReproTech | March 24, 2020
The threat of COVID-19 has affected the lives of many, including people involved in international surrogacy arrangements. As this article explains, international travel restrictions, quarantine requirements, and limits on returning home with their newborn children are all realities people in surrogacy relationships have faced as the pandemic has spread.
By Ellen Trachman | Above The Law | March 18, 2020
Above the Law highlights how the COVID-19 pandemic is changing the legal landscape of international surrogacy. Read how delayed agreements, changes to physical contact guidelines, and travel restrictions are affecting surrogates, egg providers, and intended parents.
