How Long Does Surrogacy Take?
Good surrogates are hard to find! They need to be thoroughly vetted before they are matched with intended parents. This first step takes an average of three months, then the whole process takes about a year (to get to the baby’s birth). Kathy Benardo from the Northeast Assisted Fertility Group explains the steps.
The Sinister Surrogate and other Myths about Surrogacy
What is your favorite surrogate movie? When the Bough Breaks? The Surrogacy Trap? The Sinister Surrogate?Although it’s a lot of creepy fun, the surrogate theme has everything to do with horror movie clichés and nothing to do with the reality of surrogacy. A welcomed outsider who eventually threatens or destroys the family is a common […]
Nurses Make Extra Money Through Egg Donation and Surrogacy
Psychologists have observed that the pain and stress of infertility can be more debilitating and overwhelming than a diagnosis of cancer. Infertility affects about 10% of the US population across all socioeconomic levels and ethnic backgrounds. In the United States an estimated 7.3 million people, or 1 in 8 couples, are infertile. Nurses who specialize […]
New York Will Not Legalize Surrogacy This Year: What Does this Mean for New Yorkers?
The bill to legalize surrogacy in New York did not get enough support in the Assembly to pass during this session, although the Senate approved it. The old-school feminist view that surrogacy is exploitive prevailed, for now at least, over the more modern view that surrogacy is among the rights that women should have to […]
Making Surrogacy Legal in NY? Catholics and Jews are on Opposite Sides
God commanded the first man and woman to “be fruitful and multiply.” Does assisted reproductive technology fulfill that mandate? The New York State Catholic Lobby submitted a memorandum of opposition regarding the Child Parent Security Act, which would make surrogacy legal in New York. A group of 118 Jewish clergy (rabbis and cantors) released a […]
Surrogacy Mythbusting: The Surrogate Cannot Keep the Baby!
The most common misconception about surrogacy is that the surrogate can change her mind and keep the child. In this video I discuss the origins of this idea in the notorious Baby M case, and explain the difference between traditional and gestational surrogacy.
Surrogacy in NY State: Sanford Benardo Editorial in New York Law Journal
Give New Yorkers the Same Reproductive Rights Found in Other States https://finance.yahoo.com/news/yorkers-same-reproductive-rights-found-020035733.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=ma
Foreign Couples in Limbo After India Restricts Surrogacy Services (Wall Street Journal, Nov 17)
Authors Joanna Sugden and Aditi Malhotra quote the British medical journal The Lancet when they state that having a baby in the US with a surrogate costs about $250,000. In fact it is more like $125-150,000. This inflated number was used to compare to the $25,000 they quote for surrogacy in India. The US is […]
New York Times: A Surrogacy Agency That Delivered Heartache by Tamar Lewin
Although the need to cut costs is understandable, it is very risky to undertake a surrogacy arrangement without the standards and oversight of US regulations.
Surrogate Offered $10,000 to Abort Baby: CNN
Here is a case of everything done wrong: as reported by CNN, Crystal Kelley, a financially desperate single mother with two previous miscarriages, refuses to abort a fetus with serious developmental problems, defying the demands of the intended parents. Crystal Kelley is not a good candidate for gestational carrier, and should never have been accepted […]
