A Massachusetts’ Parental Equality Law Signed by Governor Healey

            Massachusetts has passed a law (H.4970) that will effectively ensure Parental Equality for all families. The groundbreaking law is meant to have all children born in the State to have the same rights and legal protections to their parentage without regard to the marital status, gender, gender identity, or...

Surrogacy Controversy Mentioned on The Joe Rogan Experience #2140

On a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience #2140, the host, Joe Rogan, and his guests Francis Foster and Konstantin Kisin, quickly mentioned a story about a gay couple that Joe is friends with who had recently hired a Surrogate to carry their child to term. The controversy in...

Parents Fight for Equal Rights under Massachusetts’s Parental Rights Laws

For LGBTQ parents, Massachusetts’s laws place them in a legal gray area regarding their parental rights when utilizing IVF and Surrogacy to create their families.  In fact, many couples have to also undergo a stepparent adoption in order for their partners to have the same parental rights as they do...

Surrogacy Compensation and Why It is Important to Women, Families & the Children

Compensating a woman for carrying your baby is seen by some as both exploitative and harmful to all the parties involved in the process. In fact, many countries ban it outright, even if the Surrogate consents. Other countries allow it, but ban payments to her of any kind. Only a...