Donor Assisted Reproduction

Adoption Truth, Mirah Riben on Huffington Post, More Adoption Blogs from Adoption Bloggers October 28, 2015

New York Times Misguided: Anonymous Human Ova Sale Creates a Danger

By Mirah Riben A class action federal lawsuit is being pursued by egg “donors” for what they call “price fixing.” The lawsuit challenges the guidelines prepared by two professional organizations that set suggested limits on payments for egg “donations.” The mega-billion-dollar infertility industry argues that, regardless of the discomfort and risk involved in hormone injections and egg extraction, paying high compensation rates for these procedures would make it too tempting…

A Father's Right, Costs of Adoption, Mirah Riben on Huffington Post, More Adoption Blogs from Adoption Bloggers August 26, 2015

Are Parents Disposable and Interchangeable?

By Mirah Riben Recently CBS News reported on what they called “The New Fatherhood,” which featured two men: physician Conrad Cean and photographer Alan Cresto, each of whom decided to be a parent, without a partner. Each purchased eggs and hired a surrogate to carry a child for them, intentionally creating motherless children. Clinical psychologist Barbara Greenberg appeared on the segment applauding their family-building, joining the CBS News anchors in…

More Adoption Blogs from Adoption Bloggers March 13, 2015

Finding Family Truths and Roots

By Mirah Riben Review of the book, Finding Our Families: The first-of-its-kind for donor-conceived people and their families by Wendy Kramer and Naomi Cahn, J.D. Finding Our Families is a treasure trove of compassionate advice designed to help those raising the more than an estimated million people who were conceived using so-called donor* sperm, the tens of thousands whose lives began with eggs of contributors, and thousands who were “adopted”…

Center for Bioethics and Culture

A Birthmothers Life July 23, 2013

The Center for Bioethics and Culture

Center for Bioethics and Culture
I have heard from more than a few good sources that many adoption attorneys are making most of their money through surrogacy agreements these days. In my opinion, the only difference between adoption relinquishment and surrogacy is that one pregnancy is usually unplanned and one pregnancy is planned. In either case, someone is getting paid for the separation of a mother and her genetic creation, her child.

Adoption March 12, 2004

Even More Adoption Blogs

Other opinions, stories from the other side of Adoption: Adoption Issues Cover a Wide Variety of Bloggers People conceived from sperm donors, surrogate children, husbands and wives of adoptees, reunited siblings all blog too. Adoption does not just effect parents and child , but can alter the dynamics of two extensive families. Every one’s feelings and perspectives of adoption should be considered. ~ as always, if you’re not on the list and…