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Should Infertility Treatments Be Covered By Insurance?

More and more infertile couples are turning to medical intervention to treat infertility. The most popular is in-vitro fertilization, although some medical procedures such as the surgical clearing of blocked fallopian tubes are also done. With the rising cost

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How to Make IVF Affordable in the US

Iva Skoch’s new Newsweek article on the high cost of IVF in the United States makes some really great points. One point that bears repeating is that that the cost of IVF in the U.S. won’t be affordable by the…

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In His Quest to Stigmatize Gays, FRC’s Tony Perkins Stigmatizes the Infertile

In his weekly column, Tony Perkins, the president of the vehemently anti-gay conservative Christian group the Family Research Council, reacted to CNN’s documentary “Gary and Tony Have a Baby”. Perkins described the gay couple who have a child using egg…

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What Do Gay Men Think About Adoption, Egg Donation, and Surrogacy?

In researching my earlier post on “Gary and Tony Have a Baby”, the CNN documentary hosted by Soledad O’Brien about two gay men becoming parents through egg donation and surrogacy, I almost included this link to Joe.My.God’s post about the…

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CNN’s ‘Gary and Tony Have a Baby’ Explores Egg Donation, Gay Parenting

CNN’s new gay parenting documentary “Gary and Tony Have a Baby” debuted on June 24 to positive reviews. The documentary follows married couple Gary Spino and Tony Brown as they plan the birth of their child and work with…

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Females Selling Human Eggs for Cash Stirs Controversy

The debate over how much money to pay female egg donors is hardly new. Many newspapers and magazines have already written about the question of women selling their eggs, including the New York Times, USA Today, and the Boston Globe…

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ABC News with Diane Sawyer to Air Feature on Egg Donation

A couple weeks ago I pointed out that ABC News was looking for egg donors and donor egg recipients for a feature they were working on. While watching The View this morning ABC aired a commercial for that feature. I…

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National Infertility Awareness Week Events

Each year RESOLVE, the national infertility association, sponsors events for National Infertility Awareness Week. This year’s events feature a number of interesting workshops, presentations, and conferences, most of which are free. Here are some of the events I thought were…

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