The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled that a nongenetic, nongestational lesbian mother is a legal parent to the child she and her former spouse had planned for and conceived through assisted reproduction—and it asserts the principle of intent-based parentage, a big win for LGBTQ and other families formed via assisted reproduction.
My spouse Helen and I were honored to be interviewed for the “becoming babyREADY” podcast with Sam Leeson, where we talk about our own path to parenthood more than 20 years ago, the creation of Mombian, and our love of women’s hockey! Listen here or on your favorite podcast app!
A new federal executive order purports to expand access to IVF and make it more affordable. But does it? Will it benefit LGBTQ people growing their families?
Human Rights Campaign President Kelley Robinson and her wife, Becky George, are expecting their second child, reports The Grio in a happy bit of pre-holiday news. Robinson is pregnant and due next spring.
California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) signed legislation yesterday updating the definition of “infertility” to make it more inclusive of LGBTQ and single people, and requiring large insurers to cover the diagnosis and treatment of (in)fertility services, including in vitro fertilization (IVF).
Brian Rosenberg is on a very personal mission to help LGBTQ+ people build their families. When he was in his 20s and 30s, he said in an interview, “Gay men were not thinking about becoming parents because everyone who would have done it was dying, and many of us, like myself, have HIV, and so we weren’t planning for it.”
Backed by the authority of the venerable Mayo Clinic, two new guides on fertility and pregnancy are more LGBTQ inclusive than ever. Should LGBTQ prospective and new parents add them to their collections? Here are my reviews.
Queer parents and prospective parents can sometimes have a hard time finding support and community. Marea Goodman, a licensed midwife and queer parent, is hoping to make that easier with PregnantTogether, a growing virtual community for queer and solo parents and parents-to-be.
A new animated video series offers stories for kids who were conceived via various forms of donor conception, in a variety of family types! They cover topics like what donor conception is, what a donor sibling is, and how donor-conceived kids can respond to questions about their families. Watch the first episode here!
I started my family more than two decades ago via in vitro fertilization (IVF), and I’ve watched with growing alarm as the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision that overturned federal abortion rights two years ago has also endangered access to this common fertility technique. Jennifer Klein, director of the White House Gender Policy Council, spoke with me about the threat and the Biden administration’s response.
