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Egg Donation - Don't be alarmed, but an egg donor has been conferred parental rights, BUT it is because she is the mother and her sister is the surrogate. Although this case shocked me when I first heard about it, all is good. Good case for Indiana.

Here is the story: Indiana court rules egg donor can seek maternity rights

"A northern Indiana woman who says she donated the egg to conceive a child that was carried by her sister can have her name listed as mother on the boy's birth certificate if she can prove in court that she is his biological mother.

Marna Gatlin of PVED and the AFA teamed up for a great blog regarding some up and coming Arizona legislation that I blogged about last week.

Read, and let me know your thoughts!

http://theafa.typepad.com/theafablog/2010/02/hey-arizona-please-dont-con...

"by Marna Gatlin

Embryo donation & family trees- I found an interesting article today that I thought might provoke some thoughts in both the industry and by those considering this option. I have included the family tree diagram, which was very interesting and provocative; however, at the same time I felt that shows how diverse families are and how these individuals came together to create several beautiful families - without the children losing their sense of identity. Let me know your thoughts.

Surrogacy News has been big this week in Australia, specifically in Queensland - and our updates will focus on where this will take the people of Australia in their quest to have a child via surrogacy. But, first we will start with Indiana, where a couple is fighting for the right to have their names on the birth certificate of their child.

Indiana - The biological parents of a child born via surrogacy are challenging a ruling by the Indiana courts. The Court of Appeals is to hear arguments this week. A trial court denied their request as follows:

Egg Donation - The legislative agenda of Arizona's state lawmakers is now being made public. In fact, Representative David Stevens, a Sierra State Republican from District 25, is a primary sponsor of the following bills:

He is a primary sponsor of measures that would require physicians to give specific informed-consent information to prospective egg donors; bar the selling of human eggs; and another that bars in vitro fertilization of a human egg with anything but human sperm or the transfer of a human embryo to anything but a human womb.

Surrogacy, egg and sperm donation, as well as Adoption put a huge strain on a couple's marriage or partnership. We all know this whether we acknowledge it or not. Which is why I teamed up with Expert, Kristen Magnacca, for today's show. She provides ALOT of great insight for couples who have no where else to go. There are also issues of jealousy, guilt, sadness, loss, and vulnerability that many choose not to address. In fact, she noted that couples need to start (together) with the five things to help you, as a couple, survive infertility.

They are as follows:

Surrogacy, Embryo Donation, & Dr. Phil - well, it has been a slow week for news, but again the legislation that is being considered in Tennessee and Oklahoma should cause us all to pause - patients and industry professionals alike. TGIF!