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N.J. court orders 2 moms on birth record
Ann Rostow, PlanetOut Network
In yet another example of how real-life families are changing the way courts treat parents and children, a lesbian couple in New Jersey has won a court order to have both their names listed as parents on the birth certificate of their 3-week-old daughter.
Kimberly Robinson gave birth to Vivian on April 30, the American Civil Liberties Union reports in a press release. On Friday, a New Jersey court agreed that Robinson's partner and wife, Jeanne LoCicero, should be listed on the official paperwork as the second parent.
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Discovery can extend fertility
HELEN BRANSWELL, CP
TORONTO -- Montreal researchers have pulled off a Canadian fertility first that may have huge implications for women hoping, for health or personal reasons, to preserve their ability to bear children beyond the time frame Mother Nature envisaged.
The team, from the McGill Reproductive Centre, has perfected a technique to flash-freeze unfertilized eggs. The success rate -- in other words, the number of eggs still viable after they've been frozen and thawed -- is an impressive 95 per cent.
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Screening improves IVF success rate for older women
By Patricia Reaney
LONDON (Reuters) - Screening embryos can increase the success rate of older women having fertility treatment, a leading fertility expert said on Thursday.
Dr Yury Verlinsky, of the Reproductive Genetics Institute in Chicago, told a medical conference that screening embryos before transferring them to the womb increased the take-home baby rate from 11.5 percent to 81.4 percent
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Texas lawmakers kill gay foster parent ban
Ann Rostow, PlanetOut Network
As expected, a Texas legislative committee has killed a measure that would have banned gay, lesbian and bisexual Texans from becoming foster parents.
The proposal has been raised since the 1999 legislative session by Rep. Robert Talton, R-Pasadena. But Talton's attack on foster parents has never survived a committee vote. This year, Talton waited until a major reform of the department of Child Protective Services...
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A niche for surrogate mothers: Gay couples
By Ginia Bellafante
NEW YORK On a recent spring morning, Lura Stiller sat in her stocking feet in a sunny cottage in Cambridge, Massachusetts, helping Cary Friedman and his partner, Rick Wellisch, calm their daughter, a 3-month-old in a pink T-shirt.
Stiller, 34, a homemaker from the Dallas, Texas, suburbs, likes to say that the number of gay people in her acquaintance before she met Friedman, a psychiatrist, and Wellisch, an internist, amounted to zero.
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Secondhand smoke may cut women's fertility
Study: Patients undergoing IVF treatment at greatest risk
The Associated Press
GENEVA - New research suggests that exposure to other people’s cigarette smoke may damage a woman’s fertility, especially if she needs the help of an infertility clinic to get pregnant.
It has long been known that smokers have reduced fertility, but the effect of secondhand smoke on the ability to get pregnant is unknown.
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Secondhand smoke may cut women's fertility
Study: Patients undergoing IVF treatment at greatest risk
The Associated Press
GENEVA - New research suggests that exposure to other people’s cigarette smoke may damage a woman’s fertility, especially if she needs the help of an infertility clinic to get pregnant.
It has long been known that smokers have reduced fertility, but the effect of secondhand smoke on the ability to get pregnant is unknown.
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