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 Matt Tracy | Gay City News | April 2, 2020
Gestational surrogacy is now legal in New York state, due to language included in the Governor’s budget bill. This article provides background about the legalization effort, explains divisions among women’s rights advocates, and highlights some of the provisions and protections included—and excluded–for surrogates in New York.
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.
BBC | August 23, 2019
This 24-minute film tells the story of a young woman preparing to meet the man who donated the sperm her mothers used to conceive her, and also meeting several of the 19 half-siblings who were “fathered” by the same donor.
By Hannah Harris Green | Vice | August 20, 2019
This article looks at the troubling case of a same-sex couple who had to go to great lengths to establish both mothers as legal parents, and explains some of the legal barriers to establishing parentage as an LGBTQ family.
