Showing posts with label lgbt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lgbt. Show all posts

Friday, July 4, 2014

Surrogacy – Hope for intended parents and LGBT couples

Couples who are suffering from infertility struggle a lot to establish their family. The only hope for sterile and LGBT couples to establish their family is surrogacy. Intended parents can hire surrogates to fulfill their dream of parenthood by having a biologically related child. A surrogate becomes pregnant for the sake of childless couples, which is widely become popular as intended parents surrogacy. Surrogate agencies play a vital role in establishing a healthy relationship between childless couple and substitute. Couples who are looking for the best proxy to realize their dreams should contact the best agency in the USA as they help you in finding the suitable lady who match your requirements and work professionally.

Hiring a lady who works professionally is very important for both biological parents and agencies because the process involves huge amount of money as well as the hope of childless couples. Therefore, most of the agencies do careful screening and try to understand the true intentions of a lady who wishes to become surrogate. A lady working as substitute should have at least one biological healthy child and should get complete support from her husband, family, friends and relatives. She should not face any complications in her previous pregnancy and should have good medical history to become pregnant once again.


Strict screening is done by the agencies by considering the above factors. Once the substitute’s medical history and other factors match the requirements of the intended parents, agreement is made between the two that briefly outlines about the compensation, medical fee, legal costs and other factors involved in surrogacy process. 

Thursday, May 22, 2014

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. 

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

LGBT | Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender surrogacy

LGBT surrogacy is a boon for the couples who desire to become parents, irrespective of their sexual orientation and relationship status. It is important to find an appropriate resource to match the requirements of individuals. LGBT couples seeking for a surrogacy option to establish their family has to search for the best agency which can help them in the legal issues and social issues. The agencies work closely with attorneys as the laws for paternity extremely varies from state to state. The agencies play a vital in deploying the suitable surrogate and look after the legal issues associated with it. It ensures the parental rights are asserted and protected.


Organizations working to establish a family for LGBT couples have years of experience to monitor the bureaucratic developments and legal issues. Agencies play a vital role in finding suitable egg donors and sperm donors and to match surrogates for LGBT’s. In some states, LGBT surrogacy is prohibited and few states legislated as a crime to pay proxies. However, few states allow this process, but restricts the use of substitute for married couples. For lesbian and gay couples, legal procedures are more complicated and tremendously vary from state to state. Therefore, it is quite important to know about the legitimate procedures involved in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender proxy to protect the rights of parenthood. Gay coupled who opts for surrogacy can have a biologically connected child through insemination process or in-vitro fertilization treatment. However, less commonly a lesbian couple can opt for a proxy if both are unable to fertilize the egg.