Source The Paradise A California couple has sued a fertility clinic, complaining that they ended up with a baby girl instead of the boy they had wanted. Albert and Anthony Saniger filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court against HRC Fertility, as well as fertility specialist Dr. Bradford Kolb, claiming breach of contract, medical malpractice, negligence, fraudulent concealment and violation of the Unfair Competition Law and the Consumer Legal Remedies Act. The Sanigers married in 2013, with the goal of having exactly two children, both boys. According to CBS News, the couple had chosen ..read more

Source Stuff.co.nz When Barry and Quinton Keyser met over a bonfire on a full moon South African night, they had no idea that the following 15 years would be spent on a heart-wrenching quest to become parents. The couple travelled to New Zealand from South Africa 10 years ago with two bags of clothing and $6000 in their pockets. Barry, a nursing practitioner, and office manager Quinton gained New Zealand residency and studied towards their chosen careers, eventually buying and renovating the Manawatū home they share with their three toy poodles Jasper, Gemma and Ruby. But there is a big pie ..read more

Source The Journal REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE Irish Gay Dads group have “implored” the Government to take action to make sure that families that are created through surrogacy “are not left behind” and treated as “second-class citizens in their own country”. The Oireachtas Joint Committee on International Surrogacy met today to focus on issues faced by same sex couples, both male and female, entering international surrogacy arrangements and achieving parental recognition. The meeting follows on from the last week’s controversial meeting where Independent Senator Sharon Keogan said she “does not ..read more

Source YNETNEWS In what looks to be a breakthrough in the fight for equality, the Health Ministry announced Monday a temporary change in the gay surrogacy policy, making it easier for male homosexual couples to arrange surrogate pregnancies in Israel. According to the new changes, single gay males or homosexual couples who have frozen embryos abroad, or are planning to freeze them until the end of April, will be able to bring them to Israel for insemination via a surrogate. This means that tens, and perhaps even hundreds, of couples can now continue the surrogacy process they’ve started abroad ..read more

Source Upworthy A single gay man from Melbourne, Australia, is finally living his lifelong dream of fatherhood with the birth of his son via surrogacy. Despite a long and challenging journey, Shaun Resnik made history as the first single man in the Australian state of Victoria to become a father via surrogacy, following the arrival of his baby boy Eli Michael on March 22 this year. The process took three and a half years, but he could not be more thankful for his newborn son. He hoped that his story of fatherhood would open doors for other single folks who wish to become parents, The Daily Ma ..read more

Source Yahoo AKRON, Ohio — When identical triplets Parker, Robin and Sylvie O’Neill are old enough to understand the full story of their journey to birth, they will learn about a story of serendipity, love and selflessness. The 1-month-old girls are the daughters of husbands Kevin O’Neill and Eric Portenga of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Their surrogate was Maureen Farris of West Akron, Ohio. “We love these girls’ birth story, and I hope someday we can sit around the table and share it with them and tell them and they’ll love it as well and be proud of it as we are,” Farris said. The girls we ..read more

Source Los Angeles Times The two envelopes, one for each twin brother, arrived in the mailbox on the same day in March of last year. The larger parcel, for Aiden Dvash-Banks, contained a new U.S. passport and a letter congratulating the boy on his American citizenship. A smaller, flimsier envelope came for Ethan Dvash-Banks. Inside, a letter stated that his citizenship application had been denied. The boys were carried in the same womb, born 16 months ago in Canada, minutes apart. But now, only one of them is in the U.S. legally. Read more The post These twins were born 4 minutes apart. But ..read more

Source Joy Online A Namibian high court is to decide whether a gay man can return home with his twin daughters, who were born to a surrogate mother in neighbouring South Africa. Phillip Lühl says his daughters are stateless after Namibia’s Ministry of Home Affairs refused to issue emergency travel authorisation papers for them last week. Under South Africa’s surrogacy laws, a child born to a surrogate mother takes the citizenship of its parents. Read more The post Gay man fights to get Namibia to recognise his twins appeared first on Surrogacy News Daily ..read more

Source Gay City News Out gay State Senator Brad Hoylman with his daughter Lucy, the younger of two daughters he and his husband, filmmaker David Sigal, have had through surrogacy. Nearly one year after New York State legalized paid gestational surrogacy, which is when a surrogate carries a baby who shares no biological relation, the law finally went into effect February 15. The gestational surrogacy bill, labeled the “Child-Parent Security Act,” passed in the budget in April of last year following a prolonged fight over the rights of surrogates and egg donors, as well as additional concer ..read more

Source Mirror Bjarke Damm and Lars Hansen have ended up with triplets from two surrogates (Image: Bjarke Damm / Lars Hansen / SWNS) A gay couple are now dads to “triplets” after two surrogates gave birth to their babies at the same time. Bjarke Damm, and Lars Hansen, both 44, were over the moon when two loved ones separately offered to become surrogate mums for the couple. Instead of turning one down, they asked Bjarke’s sister Pia, and their close friend Danielle McDavis if they could both help them make a family at the same time. Read more The post Gay dads have ‘triplets’ after two sur ..read more