Showing posts with label surrogacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label surrogacy. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Vatican statement on gender-affirming surgery and human dignity

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 A new statement from the Vatican has been widely covered in the press. Here's the story from the National Catholic Reporter: Vatican co...
Tuesday, April 2, 2024

Children in China

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 The NYT ran an interactive story on China's change in family policy, from one child (from 1979 to 2015), to two and now to three. At th...
Saturday, February 24, 2024

Foreign surrogacy in Denmark is becoming less restrictive

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 Above the Law has the story: Denmark Passes New Pro-Surrogacy Regulations. The new rules in Denmark focus on two areas of surrogacy.  By EL...
Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Pope Francis calls for a ban on surrogacy

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 The Catholic Church has long opposed in-vitro fertilization (IVF), one of the technological tools that allows surrogacy, on the grounds tha...
Tuesday, June 6, 2023

Interview in the Brazil Journal

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 I was interviewed for the Brazil Journal by Giuliano Guandalini. The interview was conducted in English, but appears in Portuguese. We disc...
Friday, April 7, 2023

Surrogacy in Spain is hard to suppress

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  In a widely reported story, a Spanish celebrity has become the surrogate mother of her grandchild, with the help of sperm from her decease...
Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Surrogacy under siege in Italy

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 Opposition to surrogacy in Italy has taken aim at the babies of same sex couples. The NYT has the story: Surrogacy Emerges as the Wedge Iss...
Monday, February 20, 2023

Will Italy criminalize foreign surrogacy?

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 It's hard to ban something that people want and need and is legally available in other jurisdictions, but it looks like Italy might try...
Thursday, January 12, 2023

Surrogacy around the world and across international boundaries

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Here's a wide ranging survey of the literature on surrogacy practice around the world. Brandão, Pedro, and Nicolás Garrido. " Comme...
Monday, November 21, 2022

Surrogacy guidelines: necessity, not convenience

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 As surrogacy becomes increasingly well established in the U.S., it is regulated not only by state laws, but  also via voluntary standards p...
Friday, October 28, 2022

Surrogacy during wartime in Ukraine

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  Surrogacy goes on amidst the war in Ukraine. The NYT has the story: How Ukraine’s Surrogate Mothers Have Survived the War. When Russia in...
Thursday, October 6, 2022

Gay couples, surrogacy, IVF and health insurance

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  The Guardian has a story about the obstacles consulting a married gay couple in New York. They have an ongoing lawsuit regarding discrimin...
Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Debate on international surrogacy in Norway

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 In Norway, where surrogacy is illegal, there is a debate about whether surrogacy conducted legally in other countries should also be crimin...
Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Surrogacy in wartime Ukraine

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  The NY Times follows the war-disrupted surrogacy market in Ukraine, where in addition to the normal surrogacy issues, surrogates have to d...
Sunday, March 20, 2022

Surrogacy disrupted in Ukraine

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Along with all the other stories of struggle and courage coming to us from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, are those about surrogates, surr...
Saturday, September 18, 2021

Surrogacy law under review in New Zealand

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  From the U. of Canterbury: Who are my parents? Why New Zealand’s ‘creaky’ surrogacy laws are overdue for major reform  by Debra Wilson, An...
Monday, July 19, 2021

Surrogacy in Israel: now available to same sex couples (and single fathers)

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 Here's the story from the Washington Post: Israel’s high court opens the way for same-sex couples to have children via surrogacy   By C...
Monday, April 19, 2021

Controversial Markets: Public lecture at the Zurich Center for Market Design (video)

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  A video of my April 13 lecture on Controversial Markets is now available at the Zurich Center for Market Design.  (The talk proper is abou...
Sunday, February 28, 2021

What Motivates Paternalism? By Ambuehl, ,Bernheim and Ockenfels in the AER

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  I have long been interested in repugnant transactions , which some people would like to engage in and others, not themselves involved in t...
Tuesday, February 16, 2021

New York State's new surrogacy law takes effect

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NBC has the story: No Longer an Outlier: New York Ends Commercial Surrogacy Ban .  New York's longstanding ban on commercial surrogate p...