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Conceiving with a known donor or co-parent – how fertility counsellors can help and what they need to know
There are many issues to consider for parents considering conceiving with a known donor or co-parent. With a minefield of information to navigate, parents can be left asking: what do we need to know? How do we set things up? How do we avoid problems in the future?...
Guide for gay men: surrogacy in the UK – Article published in We Are Family magazine
Natalie and Helen have writte an article for We Are Family, a magazine for LGBT+ parents, about surrogacy for gay men in the UK. covering both UK and international surrogacy options the article gives a concise snappy guide to where to start if you are gay dads...
HFEA gets into gear on surrogacy – Article published in Bionews
Natalie has written a comment piece in this week's Bionews about the HFEA's decision to amend its Code of Practice to cater more explicitly for those going through treatment for surrogacy in the UK. With a new set of surrogacy-specific consent forms, and clearer...
NGA at the G3 awards celebrating gay and lesbian achievement
Natalie and Richard were at the G3 awards on Friday night, a gala evening hosted by Charlie Condou and Sophie Ward, celebrating leading figures and influencers in the LGBT world. NGA was proud to be nominated for not just one but two of the prestigious awards – Family...
HFEA to update surrogacy guidance to UK clinics
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has voted to update the guidance it gives to UK fertility clinics on surrogacy. The new Code of Practice will: clarify what UK clinics should say to surrogacy patients, and update clinic procedures and forms for...
International surrogacy – UK High Court judge awards parenthood to non-British gay dads
The decision in Re A & B (Parental Order: Domicile) represents another landmark ruling for NGA – a parental order having been granted to a non-British gay couple following the birth of their son through Indian surrogacy last year. The case not only clarifies the...
NGA on today’s BBC Radio 4 Today Programme – who should have the rights where a surrogate baby is disabled?
Natalie was interviewed by James Naughtie on this morning’s BBC Radio 4 Today Programme about surrogacy (listen again here). The programme covered a US surrogacy case which hit the news after a US surrogate mother refused to terminate her pregnancy at 21 weeks when it...
Fertility patient organisations grapple with implications of High Court donor conception ruling
NGA has been contacted by UK patient organisations trying to clarify the implications of the High Court’s ruling, which has allowed two sperm donors to argue in court that they should have rights of contact with their biological children. NGA has been representing the...
Landmark High Court ruling on sperm donation and same sex parenting
The High Court has today made a landmark ruling, allowing two civilly partnered sperm donors the right to ask for contact with their biological children (against the wishes of the children’s respective lesbian mothers), but also warning that it will consider the need...
NGA in Metro – should commercial surrogacy be legalised?
Metro featured a big spread on Wednesday asking whether commercial surrogacy should be made legal in the UK. Read Natalie’s comments on the increasing acceptance of surrogacy, and the need to create a more structured legal framework, as well as legal changes urgently...
Indian surrogacy reforms – what’s the latest for gay dads and others?
There has been press coverage over the past couple of days about the new Indian surrogacy laws blocking gay dads from accessing surrogacy in India. It is an issue which has been brewing for a while, with a Bill lurking in the Indian Parliament for the past two years...
NGA quoted in Red Magazine on the 101 ways to make a family
Red Magazine has a feature this month about alternative routes to parenthood. From Melanie and her husband who have surrogate twiblings born five days apart, to gay dads with twins created with the same egg donor but each of their sperm (something we actually see...
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