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A Question of Ethics by ARR1.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Pregnancy & Fertility By Robin von Halle Donor Agent Provocateur appeared last week in the New York Times Magazine column, The Ethicist, by Ariel Kaminer. The Ethicist responded to a ... Read on »

A Wake Up Call for Would-Be Egg Donors by ARR1.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Pregnancy & Fertility By Mary Ellen McLaughlin Between increased media coverage and openness by celebrity role models about their struggles with and solutions to infertility, egg donati ... Read on »

4 Reasons for Surrogates to Use an Agency by ARR1.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Pregnancy & Fertility By Mary Ellen McLaughlin One of the common questions we see on the discussion boards of the surrogacy communities we follow is typically posed by women who are con ... Read on »

Thinking about the numbers game by ARR1.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Pregnancy & Fertility By Mary Ellen McLaughlin It is kind of scary to think about the possibility that hundreds of people – thousands, even – are out there, innocently living out thei ... Read on »

Egg Donors Seem Less Concerned Over Anonymity Factor Today by ARR1.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Pregnancy & Fertility By Mary Ellen McLaughlin The anonymity of egg donors – a norm of assisted reproductive technology here in the United States – is steadily coming under question. ... Read on »

Traditional versus Gestational Surrogacy: Worth the Risk? by ARR1.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Pregnancy & Fertility By Robin von Halle As many sad stories as happy ones about surrogacy abound on the Web. One of the more recent heartbreakers told of a U.K. couple whose surrog ... Read on »

The Surrogacy Questionnaire: Nothing’s Irrelevant by ARR1.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Pregnancy & Fertility By Mary Ellen McLaughlin We recently came across a thread in a Yahoo discussion group from a would-be gestational surrogate. She had completed an agency’s questi ... Read on »

On Today’s Assaults on Women’s Reproductive Rights by ARR1.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Pregnancy & Fertility By Robin von Halle We normally stay away from politics in this blog. Religion, too, for that matter. But a very troubling movement has been stepping up the pac ... Read on »

Myth: There are few, if any, guidelines to becoming a surrogate by ARR1.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Pregnancy & Fertility What kind of guidelines are out there for gestational surrogates and intended parents? Does it vary state by state? These questions and more are answered by Mary Ellen ... Read on »

New Expert V-cast: Surrogacy Myths by ARR1.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Pregnancy & Fertility Have questions about surrogacy? Mary Ellen McLaughlin, ARR partner and resident surrogate expert, has the answers. McLaughlin busts the many myths surrounding the gest ... Read on »

Media coverage perpetuates ART myths by ARR1.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Pregnancy & Fertility By Robin von Halle I don’t know whether to put it down to the general public’s prevailing ignorance about gestational surrogacy and egg donation or shoddy and sen ... Read on »

What happens to the birth certificate when a surrogate gives birth? by ARR1.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Pregnancy & Fertility Birth certificates are a tricky issue in the process of surrogacy. When a surrogate gives birth, can an intended parent’s name be put directly on a child’s birth certi ... Read on »

What can you do if surrogacy is illegal in your home state? by ARR1.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Pregnancy & Fertility Surrogacy is illegal in several U.S. states. If you have chosen surrogacy as your reproductive method of choice, where do you go from here? Our legal expert, Nidhi Des ... Read on »

Questions? We have answers by ARR1.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Pregnancy & Fertility The U.S. represents state-by-state patchwork of laws, some restrictive, some liberal, when it comes to egg donation and surrogacy. What can you do if surrogacy is ille ... Read on »

The “Eggsploitation” Issue by ARR1.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Pregnancy & Fertility By Mary Ellen McLaughlin A new documentary called “ Eggsploitation ” presents the stories of three women who went through the egg donation process and experienced ... Read on »

Discussing hard choices – before they must be made by ARR1.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Pregnancy & Fertility By Mary Ellen McLaughlin A recent article in the National Post highlights an issue in the fertility industry that is ripe for discussion. A couple that had turned ... Read on »

Lessons from a pro athlete: age isn’t just a number by ARR1.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Pregnancy & Fertility by Robin von Halle A recent New York Times article highlighted the difficulties faced by tennis star Gigi Fernandez after she discovered a long and rigorous tenn ... Read on »

The Positive Side of Surrogacy by ARR1.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Pregnancy & Fertility We love to see positive stories about the joys of surrogacy because far too often the media focuses on the less common negative ones. In this heartwarming video, Gin ... Read on »

Step-by-Step: Understanding the Surrogate Process by ARR1.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Pregnancy & Fertility Part 2: fertility drugs, synchronizing the cycles and pregnancy. By Mary Ellen McLaughlin Once a candidate passes the psychological screenings and physi ... Read on »

Step-by-Step: Understanding the Surrogacy Process by ARR1.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Pregnancy & Fertility Part 1: Essential criteria and the psychological screening By Mary Ellen McLaughlin One is a 25-year-old single mom of two. Another is a 32-year-old married ... Read on »

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