I’ve had a number of women contact me over the past couple of years to ask about the procedure Helen and I went through to have our child. We used my egg and her uterus, making things a tad more complicated than the usual assisted reproduction. I’ve e-mailed back a version of the below to
Slate columnist Emily Yoffe says single moms are a “national catastrophe.” Oklahoma representative Sally Kern says “homosexuality” is “the biggest threat our nation has, even more so than terrorism.” Taken together, they make it seem like lesbian single moms such as Louise Sloan must be leading the way to utter destruction of our country. Sloan
The sad part about this story is that people will think it’s a joke. It’s not. Thomas Beatie, profiled in the current issue of Advocate, is transgender, legally male, and legally married to his wife Nancy. Nancy is unable to conceive because of severe endometriosis and a hysterectomy 20 years ago. Thomas has had chest
Slate’s Emily Yoffe this week opined that “out-of-wedlock births are a national catastrophe” and marriage is the solution to childhood poverty and economic growth. Lauren Bruce at Offsprung has already taken her to task for her assertions, and notes that gay families are out of luck in Yoffe’s scenario. I’d like to add a bit
“It was a party in my fallopian tubes.” That’s how Orange County mom Cristine Gaiennie described what happened during the fertility treatments that led her and her partner Patsy Lovell to welcome quadruplets into the world on March 3. They already have a two-year-old son. I swear I didn’t know about this when I joked
There’s a new online registry for donor-conceived children, their parents, and sperm, egg, or embryo donors to find each other. Donor Offspring Matches (DOM) has just launched as an alternative to the older Donor Sibling Registry (DSR). DOM has one advantage over DSR, though: it is free, whereas DSR charges $40 per year. Is this
Oregon moms Sally Sparks and Heather Dugas had their second child on February 10, 2008, six days after they registered as domestic partners under the state’s new law. At the hospital, however, they ran into administrative complications. The clerk did not put Dugas, the non-biological mom, on the birth certificate, but instead gave her a
For my third contribution to Robin Reagler’s blog carnival, here’s Some/thing Blue: the Web site of Donor Home Delivery. A reader wrote to ask if I knew anything about this company. The Web site says it helps couples with distant known donors ship sperm safely from one place to another, ensconced in a “test yolk
If you’re a single mom or potential single mom of any orientation, or even a partnered lesbian looking for insight and advice on getting pregnant, you should put Louise Sloan’s Knock Yourself Up (reviewed here in December) on your reading list. If you’ve already read her stuff and liked it, or want to get a
Dr. Nanette Gartrell is the principal investigator of the National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study (NLLFS). “Longitudinal lesbians?” you may ask. Parse it differently, however, and it’s a multi-year, repeated study of a group of lesbian moms and their children, the longest-running and largest investigation of its kind. Dr. Gartrell was kind enough to take time
