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When Gloria Ruiz decided to become a gestational surrogate, she thought she was doing families struggling with infertility a favor. Now that she’s carried other people’s children twice, Ruiz doubts sacrificing her well-being for people who want to become parents by renting another woman’s body is as generous and kind as her fertility agency told her. Ruiz, a stay-at-home military wife and mom of a child with special needs, initially saw renting her womb as beneficial to her family. They could have some extra cash but not lose their matriarch to a time-consuming desk job somewhere in a California high-rise....

YouTubers Shane Dawson and Ryland Adams have announced that a woman they hired to be a surrogate is now pregnant with twins. There is concern over the well-being of the children due to Dawson’s past inappropriate behavior regarding children. In a video announcement, Dawson and Adams traveled to Seattle, Washington, to attend the six-week ultrasound the surrogate was undergoing, which was delayed a week so that the men could be present, according to People. In the newly released video which was filmed back in May, Adams states, “We’re pregnant, b***!” “Whatever God wants for us is what it’s gonna be,”...

A disturbing report from the Center for Bioethics and Culture Network suggested that a gay couple in California wanted the surrogate mother carrying their child to abort after the woman was given a grim cancer diagnosis. According to CBC president and founder Jennifer Lahl, the unnamed woman agreed to carry a child for an unidentified gay couple in California. The woman is a married mother of four who had already volunteered to be a surrogate mother once before and had a good experience, so she decided to try and help again. This time, the experience went horribly wrong, starting when...

It was not the typical custody case.  On one side of the parental tug-of-war over the 5-year-old twin girls at the center of the long-fought court battle were Donald Robinson Hollingsworth and Sean Hollingsworth — a gay couple who married in California and live in Jersey City.  On the other was Angelia Robinson, Donald Hollingsworth’s sister, who agreed to serve as a surrogate, ultimately giving birth to the girls through a donor embryo fertilized by Sean Hollingsworth.At issue for the judge in a case of complicated and strained family relationships, and a contractual agreement with the mother that ended in...

A surrogate mother business has been thriving for infertile couples in China, a Chinese daily reported Tuesday. Ming Pao headquartered in Hong Kong said that there was a posting put on a website on surrogate pregnancy arrangements, guaranteeing a male baby if 1.2 million yuan (about 200 million won) is paid. “Twins and triplets are also available as well as a male baby if enough money is right,” the site reads. The surrogate mother will abort immediately when the baby is found female in prenatal exams ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Rep. Christine Johnson will serve an additional role when the Utah Legislature convenes this month. The lesbian lawmaker announced she's a surrogate mother, carrying a baby for two gay men. Johnson, D-Salt Lake City, said she decided to become artificially impregnated with sperm from one of the men after the two close friends expressed frustration over the difficulty of adopting a child. Utah law prohibits unmarried couples from adopting and does not recognize gay marriage.....

Britain's most prolific surrogate mother is expecting again - and this time it's tripletsBy JAMES MILLS - More by this author » Last updated at 00:42am on 6th September 2007  After eight surrogate pregnancies in little more than a decade, you might think that Carole Horlock would have tired of giving birth. But Britain's most prolific surrogate mother is expecting again - and this time it's triplets. Miss Horlock, who will be 41 next month, is eight weeks into the pregnancy for a married woman left infertile after cancer. Scroll down for more...   Carole Horlockwith the surrogate son...

"...In December, Ms. Stiller gave birth to the baby, named Samantha, for Dr. Friedman and Dr. Wellisch, conceived with a donor egg and the sperm from one of the partners. (They chose not to know which.) In her decision to work with them Ms. Stiller is part of a small but growing movement of surrogate mothers choosing gay couples over traditional families."

Homosexual/Catholic/Republican/Pro-Life Couple hire Surrogate Mother, Abort 1 Child, Baptize 4 in Catholic Church   Michael Meehan and Thomas Dysarz are part of a nontraditional family that includes three adults and eight children, among them a set of quadruplets.(ABCNEWS.com) A Different Arithmetic Pioneering Parents Raise New Questions About What Defines a Family Feb. 5 — In Lexington, Ky., there's a family that consists of eight children, three adults, and every conventional notion of family turned upside down.                                       There's one dad, Thomas...

An ultrasound picture sits next to a constantly ringing phone on the reception desk of the Planet Salon that just opened in Beaumont Centre. The photo is a clue that something possibly unique is about to happen to the men who own the salon, domestic partners Thomas Dysarz and Michael Meehan. The men expect to become parents in late August, when a Caesarean section is scheduled. Meehan, 36, is the biological father. The mother is a 23-year-old surrogate who agreed to help Meehan and Dysarz have a baby through in-vitro fertilization. But then something happened that nobody expected -- and...