LGBT couples choose surrogacy through IVF

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender couples can establish their family through surrogacy process. However, many LGBT couples opt for adoption to provide home for a child in need. But, through surrogacy bisexual, gay and transgender couples can expand their family by having a biological child through in-vitro fertilization treatment. In this treatment, a donor’s egg is fertilized with intended male sperm and cultured in laboratory for two to six days. Then, the fertilized egg is transferred to the uterus of a proxy. The proxy carriers the baby for nine months and hand over to LGBT couples.

There are two types of surrogacy; traditional and gestational. In traditional LGBT surrogacy, the sperms of two gay men is collected through masturbation and injected to the proxy’s uterus through artificial insemination. A proxy need to undergo fertility treatment at least two weeks before impregnation. In gestational surrogacy process, a female ovum is fertilized with gay sperm outside the body. The zygote is then injected to a proxy’s womb. The baby born through this process is biologically related to the gay man.

Some claim that LGBT surrogacy is not unhealthy. The child raised by two dads or two moms is not good. However, this perception is totally uncorroborated. In fact, the ASRM (American Society for Reproductive Medicine) has stated that the agencies and clinics have ethical responsibility to consider the requests of LGBT and infertile couples to realize their dream of parenthood irrespective of marital status and sexual orientation. It also recommends that agencies and clinics should treat all the requests with respect and should treat LGBT couples equally with married couples.