Gil Gross speaks with reproductive attorney Melissa Brisman regarding the story of a Crystal Kelley, the surrogate mother who refused to abort the fetus she was carrying when instructed by the couple who hired her to be the birth mother...
cnn.com March 07, 2013 By Elizabeth Cohen, Senior Medical Correspondent When Crystal Kelley agreed to carry someone else's baby, she didn't, in her words, "dot every 'i' and cross every 't.'" That turned her surrogacy dream into a nightmare. Surrogacy has become an increasingly popular way of having a baby. In 2010 there were 1,448 [...]
northjersey.com October 24, 2012 BY MICHAEL LINHORST AND MELISSA HAYES STAFF WRITERS The New Jersey Supreme Court has let stand a parental rights law that was challenged by a couple who said it unfairly favored infertile men over infertile women. An infertile woman must formally adopt the child conceived from her husband’s sperm and carried [...]
Men's Health October 20, 2012 Oliver Downs,* 8 days old, lay peacefully in his bassinet, his cries from his circumcision quelled by a thumb drop of kosher wine and cuddles from his father, Mitchell, and his grandmother. Both were taking a respite from the bagel-and-lox-eating crowd at Oliver’s bris. A friend who hadn’t known that [...]
NewYorkPress.com October 4, 2012 By Alissa Fleck In 2006, when Brooklyn local Melissa Musman was told by her doctor she could not have children following radiation treatments for desmoid tumors, she and her husband, Mike, decided to seek a gestational surrogate, or a woman who would carry their baby to term. With the help of [...]
edgeboston.com September 22, 2012 When Arthur Halpern and his partner Matt Praet first got together nearly 14 years ago, they knew that one day, they wanted to have a child. After Praet was finished with acupuncturist school and the two were settled, they set about starting their family, attending an expo at New York’s LGBT [...]
By Gina Barton of the Journal Sentinel jsonline.com August 9, 2012 In 2001, a British woman serving as a surrogate for a California couple found out she was carrying twins. That was a problem: The parents-to-be wanted only one baby. They had discussed aborting one fetus, but the surrogate refused to do so when they [...]
By Gina Barton of the Journal Sentinel jsonline.com, August 8, 2012 For women in India, serving as a surrogate can be the difference between poverty and the chance for a better life. Since it became legal in 2002, paid surrogacy has become a $2.3 billion annual industry in India. Women who carry a foreign couple's [...]
By Gina Barton of the Journal Sentinel jsonline.com, August 7, 2012 In Ohio, a surrogate and an egg donor both sued for custody of triplets after the genetic father and his fiancée failed to visit the babies in the hospital for several days. In New Jersey, a woman who had served as a surrogate for [...]
By Gina Barton of the Journal Sentinel jsonline.com, August 4, 2012 Dawn Kornstein felt the pain again. The medication wasn't working. There was nothing more the doctors could do. The contractions kept coming. Dawn was 5½ months pregnant with twins, and the pain intensified with every breath. Her skin took on a gray pallor. The [...]
