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Global Market Insights estimates the surrogacy market will grow from $14 billion in 2022 to $129 billion by 2032. One of the forms of surrogacy is known as gestational surrogacy, which is when a woman carries a baby that she's not genetically related to for another person. Atrium Health CMC’s Women’s Institute Medical Director and Director of Fertility Preservation Dr. Michelle Matthews said in the past 20 years gestational surrogacy is used more often for family building. “Women are waiting until they’re older to have children, so as we wait until we get older, we can have more gynecologic conditions...

The time, travel, emotional turmoil and expense of entering into a surrogacy agreement with a woman in another country can only suggest that the baby born at the end of the process is a much-wanted child. However, that assumption has proved tragically false in shocking cases, where parents have abandoned the newborns they claimed to want when circumstances changed after the birth. They include the much-publicised case of Baby Gammy, who was carried, by a Thai surrogate mother for an Australian couple - who took his twin sister and left him behind after it was discovered he had Down's syndrome....

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox News @ Night,” former Kamala Harris Campaign Surrogate Lindy Li said she believes that President Joe Biden is burning things down at the urging of First Lady Jill Biden and cited him coming out against stock trading by members of Congress. Host Kevin Corke asked, “This is from the Daily Mail, this is a piece from Emily [Goodin], very interesting, the headline reads, in part, ‘How Vengeful Jill Biden Is Urging ‘Depressed’ Joe to ‘Burn the Whole Thing Down’ in Their Final Days’, it reads in part, ‘Jill views Democrats on...

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox News @ Night,” former Kamala Harris Campaign Surrogate Lindy Li stated that President Joe Biden “has not been cognitively fit to assume the duties of the Oval Office for a number of years now,” and that one of her relatives reacted to meeting the President earlier this year by stating, “we’re *&*&^&.” Li said, “[L]et’s just be very honest what’s happening here, the President has not been cognitively fit to assume the duties of the Oval Office for a number of years now, and it breaks my heart to say it....

The far-left New York Times found one “witness” to vouch that Kamala Harris worked at a McDonald’s and hid the fact this so-called witness also happens to be a Harris campaign surrogate. Over the weekend, the Times — a left-wing propaganda outlet that spreads fascism, conspiracy theories, and antisemitism — wrote an absurd defense of Kamala’s claim she worked at a McDonald’s during the summer of 1983. I’ll get to the absurdities in a bit, but the most convincing part of the defense (that, as I’ll also explain, isn’t very convincing) was Kamala’s one witness. Here’s how the Times presented...

People are living their lives remotely from the safety of their own homes via robotic surrogates -- sexy, physically perfect mechanical representations of themselves. It's an ideal world where crime, pain, fear and consequences don't exist. When the first murder in years jolts this utopia, FBI agent Greer discovers a vast conspiracy behind the surrogate phenomenon and must abandon his own surrogate, risking his life to unravel the mystery.

President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign scheduled Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) to attend Wednesday’s Republican primary debate as a surrogate. Biden’s decision to send Newsom is noteworthy because some political experts believe Newsom will replace Joe Biden atop the Democrat ticket. Many Democrats fear that Joe Biden, 80, is too old to serve four more years. Newsom will attend the debate in Simi Valley, California, to spin the Republican candidates’ “extreme” rhetoric and “out of touch views.” Along with Newsom, Joe Biden also will send Biden-Harris campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez and Democrat National Committee Chair Jamie Harrison.

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,”...

In an unprecedented step, gay couples and single men whose infants are born via surrogate will be hospitalized in the maternity ward at Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva, Israel Hayom reported. As part of the new initiative, one of the homosexual male partners will be hospitalized in the maternity ward, while the other will be the escort. The surrogate mother will not be hospitalized in the maternity ward but in the Gynecology Department. The homosexual partners will receive close support and guidance from the medical staff, as do all other couples who arrive at the hospital for a birth. According...

While Joe Biden shows an inability to climb stairs, having face-planted no less than three times yesterday trying to board Air Force One, his wife is hitting the road to promote the latest COVID “relief” bill. Why a first lady is taking on the role of political propagandist is an interesting question. Traditionally, first ladies head up some mostly non-partisan, pet project and stick to that. To the extent that they have any role in governance, it’s extremely unusual for them to involve themselves with highly political matters. Melania Trump had her no-bullying campaign. Michelle Obama made school lunches taste...

Sean Smith and his husband paid more than $20,000 for a fertility procedure when they decided to have a child using a surrogate mother. They did not know at the time that if they were a heterosexual couple, they might have saved that money. Now, Smith and other members of Hawaii’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community are lobbying for equal access to the financial help married, heterosexual couples enjoy under state law. They are pushing legislation that would require insurance companies to cover in vitro fertilization for more couples, including making Hawaii the first state to require the coverage...

Link takes you to video captured on Twitter. A short time ago this was on FOX News. Who is this guy? I think it may be a Hillary operative from Florida and have seen him before. He is totally obnoxious. https://twitter.com/jaysmith003/status/777264624773181440 SHORTLY AFTER POSTED ON YOUTUBE IT WAS REMOVED https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A1U3MHXbQY"

Jun. 07, 2016 - 5:01 - On 'America's Newsroom,' Arizona campaign chair Jeff DeWit says 'very positive' call with presumptive GOP nominee is being misconstrued

The campaign for current Park District incumbent Carl Paladino has filed specific objections to the nominating petitions filed by his 18-year-old challenger Austin Harig. Paladino has come under fire lately for missing a public forum debate sponsored by the Buffalo Association of Black Journalists this past Monday.

A set of triplets at the center of a major surrogacy case have been born in California and are being tended to in hospital. The three boys were born seven weeks premature on Monday night, according to a lawyer for Melissa Cook, the 47-year-old surrogate mother who refused to have an abortion at the request of the biological father, sparking a wide-reaching legal battle. The lawyer, Harold Cassidy, told Fox News that the babies were immediately taken from Cook following the birth after a judge granted the father full parental custody. The father, identified in court papers only as C.M.,...

America and Spanish man claim Thai woman reneged when she found out their status In the midst of an ugly battle in which two homosexual men are trying to bring a girl out of Thailand to rear her in Spain, the Southeast Asian country is proceeding to ban foreigners’ use of surrogate mothers there. The gay fathers’ case is one of several contentious cases, albeit the highest profile, that has led to the legislative action. Fusion gave some of the background: A child born in Thailand by surrogate last year was left behind after he was born with Down’s syndrome....

The Obama administration has unveiled a new policy that effectively grants U.S. citizenship to foreign women in exchange for acting as surrogate mothers for U.S. couples or selling their eggs to American women. The new policy guidance, announced on Tuesday, redefines the terms “mother” and “father” in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). “A 'natural mother' or 'natural father' is a genetic parent or gestational parent,” the new policy says. This “includes a non-genetic gestational mother if she is the legal parent at the time of birth.” By bearing the child of an American couple, the mother is then placed...

I'm no fan of third-party reproduction. Anybody who reads my writings or who has watched any of the three documentary films I have produced on the topic knows that these arrangements in my view are fraught with medical, ethical, and legal problems that affect women and the children they produce in negative ways. Take the breaking news of Baby Gammy in Thailand: The surrogate mother was carrying twins for the intended parents and did not know until late in her pregnancy that Baby Gammy had Down syndrome; allegedly the parents did not want the disabled child and asked the surrogate...

A Thai surrogate mother left with one twin by his Australian biological parents after the child was born with Down Syndrome said on Sunday she was not informed of his condition until late in her pregnancy. Pattaramon Janbua said her doctors, the surrogacy agency and the baby's parents knew he was disabled at four months but did not inform her until the seventh month when the agency asked her - at the parents' request - to abort the disabled fetus. Pattaramon, 21, told Reuters Television she refused the abortion on religious grounds and carried both him and his twin sister...

Two gay fathers in Texas have been denied legal recognition of their twin sons, born through a surrogate mother, because same-sex marriage is not legal in the state. While the fathers are petitioning to be placed on the birth certificates, conservative group Family Research Council has argued that the case should not serve as a "back-door" for redefining marriage. "Family Research Council supports the parental rights of anyone who is a biological parent, regardless of their marital or relationship status," Peter Sprigg, senior fellow at FRC, told The Christian Post in an email on Thursday. "However, we believe that second-parent...