Couple Who Went to Ukraine for Baby Make Harrowing Escape
Among the estimated 500,000 people to have fled Ukraine are a US couple and their newborn, who very nearly failed to escape as a family after a 39-hour ordeal, per the Orange County Register . Arkansas...
View ArticleWild Twist in the Surrogate Baby Case That's Roiling Spain
A heated debate in Spain triggered by a 68-year-old celebrity who was reported to have used a surrogate mother in Miami to have a baby took a twist Wednesday when the woman announced that the baby is...
View ArticleChrissy Teigen Reveals 4th Baby With Touching Name
Chrissy Teigen posted some surprise news to Instagram on Wednesday: She's now a mother of four. She and husband John Legend welcomed son Wren Alexander Stephens via surrogate. Her multi-slide post...
View ArticlePope Wants a Universal Ban on 'Despicable' Practice
Pope Francis called Monday for a universal ban on what he called the "despicable" practice of surrogate motherhood, as he included the "commercialization" of pregnancy in an annual speech listing...
View ArticleFor This Nearly Extinct Rhino, a Chance to Bounce Back
A rhinoceros was impregnated through embryo transfer in the first successful use of a method that conservationists said might later make it possible to save the nearly extinct northern white rhino. In...
View ArticleTransgender Christians Slam 'Hurtful' New Vatican Document
The Vatican on Monday declared gender-affirming surgery and surrogacy as grave threats to human dignity, putting them on par with abortion and euthanasia as practices that violate God's plan for human...
View ArticleItaly Blocks LGBTQ+ Couples From Becoming Parents
After banning couples from having a baby through a surrogate, Italy is taking the further step of banning couples from traveling abroad to do the same thing. Though experts say 90% of couples who use...
View Article13 Filipino Women Convicted in Baby-Selling Ring
Thirteen women from the Philippines have been convicted on human trafficking-related charges for acting as surrogates in Cambodia for a ring selling babies to foreigners for cash, reports the AP . The...
View ArticleShe Gave Birth After IVF, Then Had to Give Up Baby
A Georgia woman who gave birth a little over a year ago to a long-hoped-for baby had to give him up just months later—because the fertility clinic that had helped her get pregnant implanted another...
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