Rhode Island parentage bill goes to vote today
Canada: perspective on sperm donation
Ireland: inequities in laws regarding parentage for same sex couples
China: PGS allows couple to avoid rare deadly genetic disorder for birth of healthy baby
Assisted Reproduction
Assisted Reproduction News – June 30, 2020 Update
Long embryo storage appears to decrease pregnancy success rate
- Odds of Pregnancy Decrease With Prolonged Embryo Storage
- Study: Shorter Storage of Frozen Embryos Tied to Pregnancy Success
Switzerland: Swiss access international surrogacy in greater numbers than previously believed
CRISPR
- CRISPR gene editing produces unwanted DNA deletions
- CRISPR Gene Modifying In Human Embryos Wreaks Chromosomal Mayhem
Perspective: lesbian couple describes the ART, Pregnancy and Parentage experience
Fertility Preservation: surviving ovarian cancer while retaining the potential to have children
NY Parentage Act To Become Law
On April 2, 2020, the New York Child-Parent Security Act (CPSA) passed the New York Legislature as part of Governor Cuomo’s year 2020 budget package – one of his top priorities. The CPSA is comprehensive, addressing and securing the legal relationship between children conceived through third party reproduction and their intended parents, and discards New York State’s antiquated ban on compensated gestational surrogacy. The New York State [Read more…] about NY Parentage Act To Become Law
New Passport Restrictions Potentially Strand and Separate Families
In its continuing mission to protect families formed through adoption and assisted reproduction, AAAA issued a press release today urging the Department of State to ease the restriction on the issuance of passports to allow parents to obtain this necessary document for their babies born through gestational surrogacy. To read the full press release, click here.
Humanitarian Parole for U.S. Citizens with Completed Adoptions
Today, the Academy of Adoption & Assisted Reproduction Attorneys (AAAA) and National Council For Adoption (NCFA) issued a joint press release calling upon the Department of State to grant humanitarian parole to the children of adoptive families who are unable to receive an adoption visa in a timely manner so that the families may safely return to the United States together as soon as possible. Read the entire Release here.
New Assisted Reproduction Federal Legislation Supported by AAAA
Representatives of AAAA recently gathered in Washington DC to support the RESOLVE Advocacy Day. RESOLVE is the National Infertility Association (www.Resolve.org), advocating on behalf of the millions of Americans suffering from infertility. AAAA’s President, Catherine Keefe; Deputy ART Director, Nidhi Desai, and Past President, Deb Guston, attended meetings with Members of Congress and staffers on Capitol Hill along with RESOLVE volunteers. On the agenda: the Access to Infertility Treatment and Care Act that would extend IVF and gamete preservation coverage to veterans and federal employees; the Women Veterans and Families Health Services Act that provides for permanent funding for fertility treatment and adoption assistance for wounded veterans; and the Every Child Deserves a Family Act that would make it illegal to utilize federal funding provided to adoption service providers who discriminate based on religious affiliation, marital status, sexual orientation or gender identity. AAAA also advocated for an increase in federal funding for the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the division of the National Institutes of Health that does research on diseases affecting fertility and child and maternal mortality and morbidity. For more information on AAAA’s legislative agenda, please contact ART Director, Margaret Swain at artdirector@adoptionart.org.
–Debra Guston is a Fellow of the Academy of Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Attorneys and a Past President of the Organization