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Nobody Told Me Getting Pregnant Would Be This Hard

Jincey Lumpkin | Posted 05.17.2013 | Gay Voices
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Jincey Lumpkin

I'm not pregnant. If I were 17, this would be cause for celebration, but when you are ready for a baby and you can't just materialize one, an empty womb feels like an empty heart.

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Senate Bill 115 is Necessary to Protect Children and Fathers

Fred Silberberg | Posted 04.12.2013 | Politics
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Fred Silberberg

The Uniform Parentage Act governs the determination of parentage of children who are born of parents that are not married.

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Splish-Splash My DNA: Artificial Insemination

Emma Tattenbaum-Fine | Posted 05.18.2013 | Gay Voices
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Emma Tattenbaum-Fine

It is at the core of me and my generally sardonic outlook that the first moment of my creation happened by way of a stranger masturbating into a cup, and the second involved my mother and a glorified turkey baster.

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Catherine Pearson

Infertility: Miracle Babies

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine Pearson | Posted 12.02.2012 | Parents
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Michelle was still nursing her daughter, born through in vitro fertilization, when she found out she was pregnant again. It was entirely unexpect...

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Lesbian Baby-Making for the Entitled Generation

Michelle Cheever | Posted 12.02.2012 | Gay Voices
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Michelle Cheever

Why can't my girlfriend and I have a baby that shares our DNA? Why can't an egg from each of us be scrambled up and sprinkled with sperm? It seems so easy! Try harder scientists! Make this a priority.

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The Birds And The Bees, With A Twist

Cheryl Dumesnil | Posted 07.09.2012 | Gay Voices
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Cheryl Dumesnil

Recently my wife and I realized that while our older son could recite the egg/sperm/donor story at age 2, we're not sure what our younger son knows about his beginnings. We decided to wait for a teachable moment to arrive, which happened one morning last week.

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5 Tips For People Of Faith Considering Reproductive Technology

Ellen Painter Dollar | Posted 04.15.2012 | Religion
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Ellen Painter Dollar

The technologies available to people who want to have a baby but struggle to conceive naturally are many and growing, raising many vexing questions for people who want to make decisions in line with their religious faith.

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Teacher Fired For Having Artificial Insemination

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 12.28.2011 | Parents
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Christa Dias, former technology coordinator at Holy Family and St. Lawrence Catholic schools in Cincinnati, Ohio, claims she was fired for becoming pr...

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Why Can't Anyone Get Pregnant?

Leslie Goldman | Posted 02.21.2012 | Women
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Leslie Goldman

For perhaps the only time in our lives, we had found ourselves in the same position as a Kardashian.

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Children Who Glow? A Jewish Law Perspective On Reproductive Ethics

Mary J. Loftus | Posted 11.24.2011 | Religion
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Mary J. Loftus

The centrally important question under Jewish law would be: Have we produced another healthy or healthier child?

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Laws to Catch Up With Science

Diane Dimond | Posted 11.21.2011 | Politics
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Diane Dimond

Fooling with Mother Nature rarely works. Children born of sperm donors are realizing they may have dozens of siblings they'll never know. Donors are ...

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A Single Lesbian's Quest for Motherhood

Staceyann Chin | Posted 10.11.2011 | Black Voices
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Staceyann Chin

One day I looked up from the jaded wreckage of my umpteenth breakup and was deafened by the horror of my ticking biological clock. I was 35 and living a solitary life in a one-bedroom apartment in New York City.

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Dead Moms = Better Dads?

Vicki Larson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Divorce
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Vicki Larson

There was a lot of excitement two years ago when Clive Owen's movie The Boys Are Back, based on the true story of a single dad, was released. A lot of...

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UK Men Charged In Illegal Sperm Donor Case

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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LONDON — Two British men made a profit by illegally running a Web site that made sperm available to women who want to conceive, prosecutors alleged ...

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Open Adoption Advocate Annette Baran Dead: Author Dies At 83

Los Angeles Times | Valerie J. Nelson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
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Living with a secret is psychologically destructive -- that concept was nearly an anthem for Annette Baran, a clinical social worker and psychotherapi...

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Sexism and the Price of Eggs

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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Jacob M. Appel

The most legitimate concern raised by supporters of caps on payments to egg "donors" is that charging fair value might price some would-be parents out of the marketplace.

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Turkey Bans Trips Abroad For Artificial Insemination

BBC News | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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A new law passed in Turkey has made it a criminal offence for a woman to go abroad and get pregnant via artificial insemination. ...

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Dr. Ben Ramaley: Fertility Doctor Accused Of Using Own Sperm To Artificially Inseminate Woman

Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
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Dr. Ben Ramaley, a Greenwich, Connecticut fertility doctor stands accused of not only impregnating a patient with the wrong man's sperm, but --in a sh...

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