#IVF process in Georgia

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In a recent town-hall meeting in Georgia, former President Donald Trump solidified his commitment to promoting in-vitro fertilization (IVF), calling the Republican party “the party for IVF.” “We really are the party for IVF,” Trump said. “We want fertilization, and it’s all the way, and the Democrats tried to attack us on it, and we’re out there on IVF even more than them. So we’re totally in favor.” For their part, Democratic lawmakers have already attempted to create a “right” to IVF. But Trump’s positive endorsement of IVF is unsettling to many. Though the desire for a new life is good — and every life has dignity and value, regardless of the means of conception — IVF is fraught with a number of ethical and moral problems that cannot be overlooked. To be truly pro-life recognizes that millions of people have been created and then discarded or indefinitely frozen through the IVF process. These human beings were and are just as valuable as those who are born after being created through IVF procedures. There are three important reasons why no political party should be the “party for IVF.”

(Here is where the three important reasons should be listed but Tumble is giving me problems and I'm not mentally stable enough right now to figure it out so you'll just have to go into the actual article to read them) Being pro-life means caring for all human lives. Both political parties should stand for protecting all human lives from the moment of conception — including those embryos created via IVF. While a person’s desire to have a biological child is normal and understandable, the IVF process destroys countless innocent lives and causes far too much damage for the ends to justify the means.

Links with more information can also be found in the article

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hey love me again with another idea..

Lauren James x reader

Lauren and reader have been together since teenage year's and been recently engaged. During the euros they decided to forgo a IVF process and it was successful, until the week before the semi final the baby is born which is early and reader was alone. Therefore giving birth, reader proceeds to call lauren on face time, Lauren picks up thinking that the reader missed her until she saw how bloody and sweaty reader was holding something in her hand. (if you don't write for lj you can use Georgia Stanway or Lotte or whoever you feel like would be right)

I love this idea so much!!!! Thank you for sending it in again 🩷🩵

But since I don't write for her, who do you guys would want to see this with? Maybe someone who's not on my list? Georgia Stanway maybe?

Let me know!!!

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Interview with Seema Yasmin

We are please to have Seema Yasmin today, author of Unbecoming, a novel about the fight for body autonomy, which arrives on bookshelves on July 9th. I remember seeing Seema speak at NCTE22 when she was promoting “What the Fact?” Finding the Truth in All the Noise”, and she hinted at this book. I was so intrigued about the premise as it had only been 5 months since Roe v. Wade had been overturned and the wounds were still raw. I was so happy to get an ARC of this book and to ask Seema all about what went into bringing this moving novel to life. 

Also…slight warning as I’m going to try to do this interview without spoilers but just in case I let one slip….

K. Imani: I actually started reading Unbecoming on the day the Supreme Court ruled against a ban on mifepristone, which was a huge (albeit temporary) relief. At the beginning of Unbecoming, mifepristone has already been banned. What are your thoughts on the court’s ruling? 

Cautious relief, but greater amounts of concern. Some of the Court’s decisions have been based on fraudulent and flawed science and I worry about how this might pan out in the future. There are also the personhood laws that are disturbing and fly in the face of science. Georgia, for example, is offering $3,000 tax deductions to people who are six weeks pregnant because they count the pregnancy as a person. (This is even if the pregnancy later ends in miscarriage.) I could go on and on but we should be aware that the overturning of Roe v. Wade was just the beginning.

K. Imani: No lie, the world that you created for Laylah and Noor was terrifying but also could be our very near future. How did you approach creating this world and how did you practice self-care while writing it? 

It is our present in so many ways. At least six things I wrote in the novel have already come true, including the attack against IVF, the inability of doctors to provide emergency abortions in some states, criminalization of those helping a person get an abortion, and the fact that the overturning of Roe v. Wade led to the proliferation of state laws banning abortion. The novel mentions that Texas is soon to make abortion a criminal act punishable by the death penalty. Just a few weeks ago, we learned that the Texas GOP has just this punishment in mind.

I began to write the novel in 2019, three years before the Supreme Court would overturn Roe v. Wade.  But it wasn’t difficult to imagine the world of Unbecoming. Margaret Atwood famously said the heinous acts of torture against women in The Handmaid’s Tale were inspired by real life. Every sadistic punishment, from forced births to mandated monthly pregnancy tests, had been invented by politicians somewhere. Someone on Twitter asked her: :How do you come up with this shit?” Atwood’s response: “As if I invented it.”

It was easy for me to imagine a dystopian, post-Roe America. Inspired by Atwood, I looked to countries where abortion was banned to learn how desperate people act in desperate times. And I looked closer to home, to Texas, the most dangerous state in America to be pregnant, a state in which I had worked as a science journalist covering abortion. I sought inspiration from other states with abortion laws so restrictive they might as well have enacted bans.

I remain hopeful because of community organizers and movement lawyers; and my friends, many of them poets and artists who remind me a different world is possible. That better future begins in our imaginations. That’s why I write fiction. 

K. Imani: You have an impressive resume of non-fiction books published, but Unbecoming is your first fiction book. How was the writing process different for this novel versus your other books?

It wasn’t that different! I did a lot of research, took a lot of notes, wrote by the seat of my pants and then started to outline when I hit roadblocks. So, pretty much how I write non-fiction!

K. Imani: Throughout the novel Laylah and Noor are writing a guide for teens and comment many times on their research. What type of research did you have to do, if any, for this novel?

Yes, the novel contains a self-help guide! I talked to activists and asked them to imagine what they would be doing if they were teens. I looked into how younger people were organizing since they are not the apathetic monolith that people claim them to be. And I imagined what I might do if I were a student journalist, like Noor, who was stuck in a world where agency and autonomy were being ripped away from people with uteruses, and where young people felt powerless and voiceless.

K. Imani:  What are you hoping teens come away with after reading your novel?

Hundreds of thousands of teens become pregnant each year in the U.S. By some estimates, the number is close to 700,000. I want pregnancy, abortion and abortion care to be part of our stories since they are part of our lives. I want Laylah and Noor’s story to disrupt perceptions of Muslim teens, of queer teens, of Texans, of religious leaders, of politicians, even! Laylah and Noor learn some lessons during the course of the week in which this novel takes place: chief among them are that you have to turn up as your whole, messy self in order for your friends to fully love you and be able to support you; and while you’re worrying about how others might perceive or misperceive you, you might be misperceiving them.

K. Imani:  What was the hardest scene or chapter to write? 

There’s a part where Noor has to make a decision: does she save Laylah or does she save her friendship with Laylah? I won’t say which way she goes, but it was hard—and fun—to write about this friendship dilemma. She feels stuck between a rock and a hard place, and whether we’ve supported a friend through pregnancy and abortion, or not, we can all relate to that.

K. Imani: Can you share what you are writing right now? 

I’m writing a novel about a teenaged girl, climate change and mental health. And I’m working on a middle grade series called Muslim Mavericks which will be published by Simon and Schuster in the next year or so.

Thank you Seema for sharing with us all about the novel and your writing process. I really enjoyed the novel so look for more in my review of the novel in July.

 Pre-order Unbecoming today so you can have it in your hands on July 9th.  https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Unbecoming/Seema-Yasmin/9781665938440

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DR. SEEMA YASMIN is an Emmy Award–winning journalist who was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, medical doctor, professor, and poet. She attended medical school at Cambridge University and worked as a disease detective for the US federal government’s Epidemic Intelligence Service. She currently teaches storytelling at Stanford University School of Medicine, and is a regular contributor to CNN, Self, and Scientific American, among others. Her other books include What the Fact?: Finding the Truth in All the Noise, The ABCs of Queer History, If God Is A Virus, Viral BS: Medical Myths and Why We Fall for Them, Djinnology: An Illuminated Compendium of Spirits and Stories from the Muslim World, Muslim Women Are Everything: Stereotype-Shattering Stories of Courage, and The Impatient Dr. Lange: One Man’s Fight to End the Global HIV Epidemic. 

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It is reasonable to think a man saying he wants to be a single father because he doesn’t want a relationship should prompt some investigation by someone expert in child welfare about his emotional capability to parent alone.“

Infertility can be deeply painful. There is a lot a compassionate society can – and should – do to make fertility treatment available to those who can be assisted to have a child with medical intervention. Few would disagree though that there are ethical boundaries to this, shaped by children’s interests, not just adult desires.

Last week, the Law Commission drove a coach and horses through that moral frontier – which it framed as an overdue modernisation of the law – by publishing draft proposals to reform the UK’s surrogacy framework. Implicit in them is the, I suspect controversial, assumption that a single man seeking to have a child alone through surrogacy, because he doesn’t want or can’t maintain a committed relationship, presents no greater moral quandary than a couple seeking IVF. How controversial is anyone’s guess: the Law Commission hasn’t canvassed public attitudes.

Surrogacy is the practice of a woman conceiving, gestating and giving birth to a baby – using her own or donor eggs – for another couple or individual who can’t do so themselves. The UK is one of few countries in which it is lawful. There are important safeguards intended to guard against exploitation: surrogates can only be compensated for reasonable expenses, to try to ensure their motivations are altruistic, not financial. The surrogate is legally the child’s mother until the intended parents are granted a parenting order by the family courts, if and only if they deem it is in the child’s best interests.

Surrogacy remains small-scale in the UK: just 300-400 orders are granted a year, limited by the number of women who want to become surrogates. But in countries like the US and Georgia, where commercial surrogacy is legal – where economically vulnerable women can be paid to carry a baby and surrogacy is governed by legally enforceable contracts that the UN special rapporteur on child exploitation says constitute the sale of children – it is bigger business. In contrast, the UK legal framework tolerates surrogacy but does not actively encourage it.

The Law Commission has recommended wholesale reform that makes the surrogacy process more akin to IVF. It proposes a new “pre-conception” pathway, governed by a surrogacy agreement, in which the intended parents automatically become the legal parents of the child at birth unless the surrogate withdraws consent before birth. The family courts will no longer oversee these arrangements unless the surrogate applies for a parental order in the first six weeks after birth. Instead, surrogacy will be pre-approved by surrogacy agencies, in the same way fertility clinics sign off on IVF. The commission makes sweeping – but unevidenced – claims that this is in the best interests of children and that because it reduces uncertainty, it will increase the amount of surrogacy that happens in the UK by discouraging people from making use of more exploitative regimes abroad.

There are some positive aspects to the proposals: tighter regulation of expense payments to avoid surrogacy being commercialised through the back door; everyone involved would have to undergo counselling. Children would have the right to access information about their surrogate in the same way as those conceived using donor sperm or eggs.

But in adopting a starting point that surrogacy is just another form of assisted conception, the Law Commission has gone beyond its remit. It reduces pregnancy to a process, a transactional exchange of body fluid between a woman and a foetus rather than a relationship between a mother and the life she is nurturing physically and emotionally, that there are ethical considerations involved in breaking at birth, regardless of the desires of the individual adults involved. It is for us as a society to decide whether we want the law to actively encourage rather than tolerate this, not for the Law Commission to make recommendations without even exploring public attitudes.

The Law Commission report is peppered with imagined case studies that invoke sympathy: straight couples where a woman can’t carry a pregnancy and gay male couples who see surrogacy as their only way to have a biological child. But a better ethical test is the men who openly say they want to become fathers through surrogacy because they would rather be single parents. There would be few barriers to them doing so.

This encapsulates the extent to which the Law Commission proposals are catering to the desires of adults with a vested interest in surrogacy – however valid their reasons – over and above child welfare. It proposes a light-touch welfare check as part of the pre-conception pathway, but this would rely in the main on potential parents self-declaring issues of concern and would be carried out by surrogacy agencies that though not-for-profit would still have an interest in making surrogacy happen; the Law Commission itself suggeststhat private fertility clinics can set up not-for-profit “arms” to act as surrogacy agencies. It explicitly declines to say that the person legally responsible for these checks should have knowledge or experience of child safeguarding. These surrogacy agencies would supposedly be regulated by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, which lacks meaningful expertise in child welfare. It is all jaw-droppingly naive.

The counter is that there are only light checks for women and couples conceiving through IVF and nothing for people who become parents naturally. But surrogacy is the only route through which a single man as a sole parent can create a biological child.

Gestation is a natural if not fail-safe form of safeguarding in a world where a minority of men are responsible for almost all physical and sexual violence and men on average pose a different risk to children than women. This isn’t to say some single men who want to go it alone might not make good fathers – single men can and do adopt successfully after robust welfare checks – but that it should be harder than getting signed off for IVF.

It is reasonable to think a man saying he wants to be a single father because he doesn’t want a relationship should prompt some investigation by someone expert in child welfare about his emotional capability to parent alone.

At the heart of the Law Commission proposals is the assumption that surrogacy should be made cleaner to the benefit of the adults involved. But surrogacy is inherently messy, uncertain and ethically complex, because no one has a claim to a baby they haven’t given birth to purely on the basis of genetics and pregnancy cannot be reduced to a transaction.

The Law Commission loftily calls for the government to “endorse these essential reforms”. But on an ethical issue such as this it is vital that politicians consult the public rather than taking direction from a legal body that has grossly overstepped its remit.

 Sonia Sodha is an Observer columnist

 This article was amended on 5 April 2023. In an earlier version the writer commented that the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) “has no expertise in child welfare”. This has been amended to “lacks meaningful expertise” to make clearer that, while the HFEA has a statutory function in overseeing “welfare of the child” assessments required of fertility clinics, this is the writer’s assessment of the agency’s overall expertise in child welfare and safeguarding. The name of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has also been corrected.

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

February 25, 2024

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

The last several days have seen a Republican stampede to distance the party from the Alabama Supreme Court’s decision of a week ago, when it ruled that embryos frozen for in vitro fertilization (IVF) should be considered children and that their injury can be treated like injury to a child. That decision has led major healthcare providers in Alabama to stop IVF procedures out of fear of prosecution. 

IVF is very popular—about 2% of babies born in the U.S. are the product of IVF—and Republicans recognize that endangering the procedure has the potential to be a dealbreaker in the upcoming election.

The fury at the Alabama decision of those who have spent years and tens of thousands of dollars in their quest to be parents was articulated yesterday in a conversation between Abbey Crain and Stephanie McNeal of Glamour, in which Crain recounted her five-year IVF journey and noted that the Alabama justice who wrote the decision, Jay Mitchell, “who,” as she said, “lives five miles down the road from me, goes to a church that people in my circle go to, and has children in schools in my community, has more of a say in whether and when I get to be a mom than me.” 

The Alabama decision is a direct result of the June 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, decided thanks to the three religious extremists former president Trump nominated to the Supreme Court. That decision referred to fetuses as “unborn human being[s]” when it overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision recognizing the constitutional right to abortion. The Alabama decision cited the Dobbs case 15 times, relying on it to establish that “the unborn” are “living persons with rights and interests.”

Republicans are now denying they intended to halt IVF with their antiabortion stance and their appointment of religious extremists to the courts. But that position doesn’t square with the fact that since the Dobbs decision, they have pressed for so-called personhood laws, laws that give the full rights of a person to an embryo from the time of conception. Since Dobbs, sixteen state legislatures have introduced personhood laws, and four Republican-dominated states—Missouri, Georgia, Alabama, and Arizona, although Arizona’s has been blocked—have passed them. 

In the U.S. House of Representatives, Republicans introduced a national personhood bill as soon as they took control in January 2023. The bill, titled “Life at Conception Act,” currently has 124 co-sponsors, including House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA). On Friday, Johnson claimed to support IVF, raising the question of what exactly that support for IVF means, considering the process requires discarding certain embryos.

In the U.S. Senate, Rand Paul (R-KY) introduced a “Life at Conception Act” on January 28, 2021. It currently has 18 co-sponsors, including Steve Daines (R-MT), who is the head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), the official campaign organization to elect Republican senators. On Friday the NRSC distributed a memo to candidates telling them to “align with the public’s overwhelming support for IVF and fertility treatments.” 

While it is the IVF story that has garnered the most attention this weekend—likely because it has obvious implications for the 2024 election and Republicans have tried to rush away from it—it is simply a different facet of a larger story: the leaders of the Republican Party are working to overthrow democracy.

On February 15, news broke that Alexander Smirnov, the informant who had provided the “evidence” that then–vice president Joe Biden and his son had each taken a $5 million bribe from the Ukrainian oil and gas company Burisma, had been indicted by a federal grand jury for lying and “creating a false and fictitious record.” On February 20, Trump-appointed Special Counsel David Weiss of the Justice Department filed a document concluding that Smirnov has “extensive and extremely recent” ties with “Russian intelligence agencies.” 

The use of Russian disinformation to destabilize democracy in the U.S. looks much like the information warfare Russia has used to establish Ukrainian leaders that worked for the Kremlin. It was the ouster of one of those leaders, Viktor Yanukovych, in the 2014 Maidan Revolution ten years ago that prompted Russian president Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine later that year. Yanukovych won office with the help of American political consultant Paul Manafort, who advised and, briefly, chaired the Trump campaign in 2016, when it weakened the Republican party’s platform plank that supported arming Ukraine against Putin after his 2014 invasion.

Seeding lies about corruption that came from Russian-linked Ukrainians was central to Trump’s 2019 impeachment: his phone call to Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky demanding Zelensky announce an investigation into Burisma and Joe Biden’s son Hunter was part of an attempt to create dirt on the Bidens. That call happened after Trump’s advisor Rudy Giuliani went to Ukraine, where he talked to “an active Russian agent,” according to the FBI. FBI agents warned Giuliani that he was a target of Russian disinformation.  

That poison has now spread from Trump’s rogue team in the White House to the Republican Party itself, which has apparently been carrying water for Putin at the very center of our government. 

Meanwhile, under pressure from Trump loyalists in the House, Speaker Johnson is refusing to take up a measure to aid Ukraine in its resistance to Russia’s 2022 invasion. Such a measure is popular in the U.S., both among the population in general and among lawmakers. While other countries can provide funds, only the U.S. has enough of the required war matériel Ukraine so desperately needs. Already, Russia has managed to retake the key city of Avdiivka because Ukraine’s troops don’t have enough ammunition, and today Jimmy Rushton, a Kyiv-based foreign policy analyst, quoted a Ukrainian officer’s report that they can’t “medivac our guys from the contact line anymore because we don’t have any artillery ammunition to suppress the Russians. We have to leave them to die.”

The reluctance of House Republicans to support Ukraine has global implications. Putin is trying to tear up the rules-based international order that has protected international boundaries since World War II, while Trump has threatened to destroy the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) that holds back Russian aggression. In the Wall Street Journal on Friday, chief foreign affairs correspondent Yaroslav Trofimov noted that European countries are worried that the U.S. will not defend its allies, while Putin has made “a de facto military alliance with the rogue regimes of North Korea and Iran while growing closer and closer to authoritarian China.”

European nations have expanded their own military production and support for Ukraine; Poland and the Baltic states have invested far more in their militaries than NATO’s threshold of 2% of a nation’s gross domestic product. In the Washington Post, Michael Birnbaum reported Friday that some of the nations that border Russia are looking again at land mines, concertina wire, and trenches—the technology of last century’s wars—to protect themselves from a Russian invasion. 

Putin and allies like Viktor Orbán of Hungary have been clear they believe democracy is obsolete. Far-right extremists in the United States agree, insisting that democracy’s demand for equal rights before the law undermines society as immigration, LGBTQ+ rights, and women’s rights challenge “traditional” values. That ideological justification has led many white evangelical Christians to flock to Trump’s strongman persona.

How religion and authoritarianism have come together in modern America was on display Thursday, when right-wing activist Jack Posobiec opened this weekend’s conference of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) outside Washington, D.C., with the words: “Welcome to the end of democracy. We are here to overthrow it completely. We didn’t get all the way there on January 6, but we will endeavor to get rid of it and replace it with this right here.” He held up a cross necklace and continued: “After we burn that swamp to the ground, we will establish the new American republic on its ashes, and our first order of business will be righteous retribution for those who betrayed America.”

But Saturday’s South Carolina Republican primary suggested that the drive to lay waste to American democracy is not popular. Trump won the state, as expected, by about 60%—lower  than predicted. Former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley won 40% of the vote. This means that Trump will have to continue spending money he doesn’t currently have on his campaign.   

More important than that, even, is that it shows that even in a strongly Republican state, 40% of primary voters—the party’s most loyal voters—prefer someone else. As Mike Allen of Axios wrote today: “If America were dominated by old, white, election-denying Christians who didn’t go to college, former President Trump would win the general election in…a landslide.” But, Allen added, “It’s not.”  

Which may be precisely why Trump loyalists intend to overthrow democracy. 

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

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Sonia Sodha

Sun 2 April 2023

Infertility can be deeply painful. There is a lot a compassionate society can – and should – do to make fertility treatment available to those who can be assisted to have a child with medical intervention. Few would disagree though that there are ethical boundaries to this, shaped by children’s interests, not just adult desires.

Last week, the Law Commission drove a coach and horses through that moral frontier – which it framed as an overdue modernisation of the law – by publishing draft proposals to reform the UK’s surrogacy framework. Implicit in them is the, I suspect controversial, assumption that a single man seeking to have a child alone through surrogacy, because he doesn’t want or can’t maintain a committed relationship, presents no greater moral quandary than a couple seeking IVF. How controversial is anyone’s guess: the Law Commission hasn’t canvassed public attitudes.

Surrogacy is the practice of a woman conceiving, gestating and giving birth to a baby – using her own or donor eggs – for another couple or individual who can’t do so themselves. The UK is one of few countries in which it is lawful. There are important safeguards intended to guard against exploitation: surrogates can only be compensated for reasonable expenses, to try to ensure their motivations are altruistic, not financial. The surrogate is legally the child’s mother until the intended parents are granted a parenting order by the family courts, if and only if they deem it is in the child’s best interests.

Surrogacy remains small-scale in the UK: just 300-400 orders are granted a year, limited by the number of women who want to become surrogates. But in countries like the US and Georgia, where commercial surrogacy is legal – where economically vulnerable women can be paid to carry a baby and surrogacy is governed by legally enforceable contracts that the UN special rapporteur on child exploitation says constitute the sale of children – it is bigger business. In contrast, the UK legal framework tolerates surrogacy but does not actively encourage it.

The Law Commission has recommended wholesale reform that makes the surrogacy process more akin to IVF. It proposes a new “pre-conception” pathway, governed by a surrogacy agreement, in which the intended parents automatically become the legal parents of the child at birth unless the surrogate withdraws consent before birth. The family courts will no longer oversee these arrangements unless the surrogate applies for a parental order in the first six weeks after birth. Instead, surrogacy will be pre-approved by surrogacy agencies, in the same way fertility clinics sign off on IVF. The commission makes sweeping – but unevidenced – claims that this is in the best interests of children and that because it reduces uncertainty, it will increase the amount of surrogacy that happens in the UK by discouraging people from making use of more exploitative regimes abroad.

There are some positive aspects to the proposals: tighter regulation of expense payments to avoid surrogacy being commercialised through the back door; everyone involved would have to undergo counselling. Children would have the right to access information about their surrogate in the same way as those conceived using donor sperm or eggs.

But in adopting a starting point that surrogacy is just another form of assisted conception, the Law Commission has gone beyond its remit. It reduces pregnancy to a process, a transactional exchange of body fluid between a woman and a foetus rather than a relationship between a mother and the life she is nurturing physically and emotionally, that there are ethical considerations involved in breaking at birth, regardless of the desires of the individual adults involved. It is for us as a society to decide whether we want the law to actively encourage rather than tolerate this, not for the Law Commission to make recommendations without even exploring public attitudes.

The Law Commission report is peppered with imagined case studies that invoke sympathy: straight couples where a woman can’t carry a pregnancy and gay male couples who see surrogacy as their only way to have a biological child. But a better ethical test is the men who openly say they want to become fathers through surrogacy because they would rather be single parents. There would be few barriers to them doing so.

This encapsulates the extent to which the Law Commission proposals are catering to the desires of adults with a vested interest in surrogacy – however valid their reasons – over and above child welfare. It proposes a light-touch welfare check as part of the pre-conception pathway, but this would rely in the main on potential parents self-declaring issues of concern and would be carried out by surrogacy agencies that though not-for-profit would still have an interest in making surrogacy happen; the Law Commission itself suggests that private fertility clinics can set up not-for-profit “arms” to act as surrogacy agencies. It explicitly declines to say that the person legally responsible for these checks should have knowledge or experience of child safeguarding. These surrogacy agencies would supposedly be regulated by the Human Embryo and Fertilisation Authority, which has no expertise in child welfare. It is all jaw-droppingly naive.

The counter is that there are only light checks for women and couples conceiving through IVF and nothing for people who become parents naturally. But surrogacy is the only route through which a single man as a sole parent can create a biological child.

Gestation is a natural if not fail-safe form of safeguarding in a world where a minority of men are responsible for almost all physical and sexual violence and men on average pose a different risk to children than women. This isn’t to say some single men who want to go it alone might not make good fathers – single men can and do adopt successfully after robust welfare checks – but that it should be harder than getting signed off for IVF.

It is reasonable to think a man saying he wants to be a single father because he doesn’t want a relationship should prompt some investigation by someone expert in child welfare about his emotional capability to parent alone.

At the heart of the Law Commission proposals is the assumption that surrogacy should be made cleaner to the benefit of the adults involved. But surrogacy is inherently messy, uncertain and ethically complex, because no one has a claim to a baby they haven’t given birth to purely on the basis of genetics and pregnancy cannot be reduced to a transaction.

The Law Commission loftily calls for the government to “endorse these essential reforms”. But on an ethical issue such as this it is vital that politicians consult the public rather than taking direction from a legal body that has grossly overstepped its remit.

Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a letter of up to 250 words to be considered for publication, email it to us at observer.letters@observer.co.uk

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Surrogacy in Georgia: Why it must be your first choice on your way to parenthood?

Many people aspire to start their own families. Some people, though, are unable to cherish this long awaited happiness. It might be a result of a health issue or a prolonged illness that has hampered their ability to conceive. Regardless of the reasons, people search for alternatives to fulfill their goals in all such situations.

While few couples and individuals adopt, others opt for more viable option like surrogacy in Georgia. Moreover, before putting any step further, one should enquire about random aspects like surrogacy laws in Georgia, surrogacy cost and so on.

Surrogacy in Georgia: Making the first move!

Finding the top surrogacy agency in Georgia that meets your customized needs is surely the most crucial decision. That said, the nation provides top-notch, reasonably priced s urrogacy options. Besides, for their innovation, the clinics and their facilities have won praise from all over the world. That said, there are also numerous treatment options related to surrogacy process in Georgia that can help you to realize your parenthood dreams.

Usually, there are several steps you must take while getting through surrogacy in Georgia. First up, initial contact between intended parents and surrogate mother needs to be established. The clinic will then carry out the procedure in association with their partner IVF clinics and centers.

Usually, intended parents will pick one of two approaches and the traditional surrogacy is the first possibility. During this process, artificial insemination is a technique that will be undertaken to achieve conception. On the other side, the possibility of the surrogate developing an emotional bond with the child since she will be bearing a child with a biological connection presents a challenge for those who decide to undergo traditional surrogacy process in Georgia.

Gestational surrogacy is yet another option available in Tbilisi, Georgia and more people are opting for this kind of arrangement. This eliminates any genetic ties between the surrogate mother in Georgia and the child. Besides, clinics use in-vitro fertilization to achieve conception while abiding to surrogacy laws in Georgia.

Moreover, to achieve fertilization, the sperm and eggs will be mixed in a lab dish. Once done, the best embryo will then be implanted into the gestational surrogate’s uterus. After the embryo has been successfully implanted, the pregnancy will be monitored and will culminate in childbirth.

Why choose Surrogacy in Georgia?

When selecting a location for surrogacy options, you must first consider whether the procedure is legal. Tbilisi, Georgia, is free of that problem. In fact, medical travel is a popular industry in the nation..

That said, we list down certain factors that attract many couples to Georgia and make it the best choice for them to start a family and fulfill their desire to become parents:

The nation’s surrogacy regulations are quite straightforward

Surrogacy in Georgia was made legal in the nation in 1997. As per the surrogacy laws in Georgia, everyone can pursue their surrogacy aspirations in this part of the world. Another benefit of pursuing surrogacy here is that the surrogate mother in Georgia isn’t coming with any parental rights, so you won’t have to worry about disagreements down the road. Besides, intended parents are also the legal parents of the born child.

Simple registration process

For intended parents, the registration process is straightforward and you will be required to agree to a surrogacy contract with the surrogate mother. As a result, you will be safeguarded in the event that a problem develops later in regards to surrogate mother cost in Georgia. Besides, the process is made simpler by the country’s minimal documentation requirements.

Low cost surrogacy options

Georgia’s surrogacy plans are relatively more affordable when compared to those of other nations. Besides, finding a surrogate mother is also made simpler because of the legal procedures that apply to them as well. Also, the best surrogacy agency in Georgia provides inexpensive packages that is even beneficial for the local and foreigner couples. So, you need not to worry about aspects like surrogate mother cost in Georgia and so on.

Easy availability of surrogacy agencies

There are many reputable agencies in Georgia that offers state of the art facilities and services. These facilities are prepared to meet the needs of clients from other countries. Besides, finding the agency that provides the best services is still the difficult part.

Hence, you must start by looking up centers and evaluating their pricing. Moreover, there are certain plans that give you access to qualified medical professionals and top-notch facilities. On the other side, most of the agencies get prepared to sit down with you and go over all your options. They ought to be eager to respond to all of your questions.

Safe and secured surrogacy destination

Besides offering low cost surrogacy options, the country also ensures the right safety of every intended parent here. Moreover, numerous Georgians voluntarily take part in egg donation and surrogacy programs. Besides, there are enough young, healthy women in the database of random surrogacy agencies who are willing to assist infertile couples in enjoying the joys of parenthood.

On the other side, surrogate mothers in Georgia have a clear motivation and satisfy all the required medical and psychological requirements. Besides, it doesn’t take much time for prospective biological parents to choose a surrogate mother.

Also, Georgia is a region of our planet that is ecologically secure. Mountains, sea coasts, and the absence of big manufacturing firms are all favorable environments for pregnancy and the delivery of a healthy child. Today, the nation ranks highly among the safest locations for foreign tourists to travel. Moreover, travelers can feel secure thanks to effective law enforcement in the country.

Final words

Georgia is surely a perfect destination for couples or individuals preferring low cost surrogacy options. That said, it is always advisable to connect with a surrogacy agency in Georgia that is backed with all the right experience and expertise to facilitate your surrogacy journey.

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ICSI Cost in Georgia: A Guide by Gestational Surrogacy India

Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI) is a popular assisted reproductive technology used to address severe male infertility. Known for its high success rate in fertilization, ICSI has become a preferred option for couples dealing with low sperm count, low motility, or other fertility issues. Georgia has emerged as an attractive destination for ICSI treatment due to its advanced medical facilities, experienced specialists, and affordable pricing. This article provides an overview of the ICSI cost in Georgia, helping prospective parents understand what to expect when planning for this treatment.

Why Choose ICSI in Georgia?

ICSI is a specialized form of in vitro fertilization (IVF) where a single sperm is directly injected into an egg, improving the chances of successful fertilization. Patients often choose Georgia for ICSI due to the high-quality care, cutting-edge facilities, and reasonable costs. Additionally, the supportive legal environment for assisted reproductive techniques makes Georgia a favorable option for both local and international patients.

Factors Influencing ICSI Cost in Georgia

The ICSI cost in Georgia can vary based on several factors. Here are the key elements that typically influence the total cost:

Type and Complexity of the Case

The complexity of each case varies, and in some situations, additional procedures or treatments may be required to optimize the chances of success. Complex cases involving multiple fertility issues might incur higher costs, as they may require advanced diagnostics and additional support treatments.

Medications and Hormone Therapy

Medications are a significant aspect of the ICSI process, helping stimulate the ovaries for egg retrieval. The cost of these medications varies based on the protocol prescribed by the doctor and the patient’s individual hormonal needs.

Additional Laboratory Procedures

In some cases, patients might opt for additional procedures such as embryo freezing or preimplantation genetic testing (PGT) to screen for genetic abnormalities. Each added service involves an extra fee that contributes to the overall ICSI cost.

Experience of the Fertility Clinic and Specialist

The expertise of the fertility specialist and clinic also impacts the cost. Clinics with experienced embryologists and a high success rate may charge higher fees due to the quality of care and results they offer.

Average ICSI Cost in Georgia

The ICSI cost in Georgia generally ranges between $3,000 and $6,000 per cycle. This cost typically includes consultation fees, laboratory charges, and the ICSI procedure itself. However, additional services, such as medications, genetic testing, or donor eggs/sperm, are often billed separately.

Additional Costs to Consider

Embryo Freezing and Storage: Patients may wish to freeze embryos for future cycles, which incurs additional fees for both freezing and storage.

Genetic Testing: Couples concerned about genetic conditions may choose PGT-A or PGT-M, which screens embryos for genetic disorders. This is an additional cost and is recommended for cases where genetic risks are a concern.

Donor Services: For couples needing donor eggs or sperm, the costs will be higher. Donor services involve screening, matching, and often legal support, adding to the overall cost.

Benefits of ICSI in Georgia

Choosing ICSI treatment in Georgia offers numerous benefits beyond affordability. Patients enjoy access to modern medical facilities, experienced fertility specialists, and an accommodating environment for international patients. Many clinics provide transparent cost structures and support for logistical arrangements like visa assistance, making Georgia a comfortable option for those traveling for ICSI.

Conclusion

The ICSI cost in Georgia offers excellent value for couples seeking effective fertility treatments at competitive rates. By understanding the cost structure and additional expenses, patients can make informed financial plans and ensure a smoother experience. With advanced technology and a reputation for quality care, Georgia remains a top destination for individuals and couples seeking ICSI to overcome fertility challenges.

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Best Surrogacy Centre in Georgia: A Comprehensive Guide

Surrogacy has become a popular option for couples and individuals who face challenges in conceiving naturally. Georgia, with its favorable legal framework and affordable services, has emerged as a global hub for surrogacy. Choosing the best surrogacy centre is crucial for a successful journey. In this article, we explore the key features and advantages of the best surrogacy centres in Georgia.

Why Georgia for Surrogacy?

Georgia offers a legally supportive environment for surrogacy, particularly for heterosexual married couples. The legal process is straightforward, ensuring that the intended parents are recognized as the child’s legal guardians from birth. Moreover, Georgia’s surrogacy centres are known for their world-class medical services and experienced professionals, making the country a top destination for surrogacy.

Key Features of the Best Surrogacy Centres

Experienced Medical Team The top surrogacy centres in Georgia are equipped with state-of-the-art facilities and an experienced team of fertility specialists, gynecologists, and embryologists. These professionals are dedicated to providing personalized care and ensuring the best possible outcome for each surrogacy case.

Affordable Surrogacy Packages One of the primary reasons couples choose Georgia is the affordability of surrogacy services compared to other countries. The best centres offer transparent pricing and various package options, including IVF treatments, surrogacy, legal assistance, and prenatal care.

Comprehensive Legal Support Legal matters in surrogacy are crucial to ensure a smooth process. The best surrogacy centres in Georgia provide comprehensive legal support, helping intended parents navigate the legal paperwork, contracts, and any issues that may arise during the surrogacy process.

High Success Rates The best surrogacy centres boast high success rates due to advanced medical technologies and experienced professionals. This makes Georgia a reliable destination for couples looking to fulfill their dream of parenthood through surrogacy.

Supportive Environment for Surrogates and Parents Surrogacy centres in Georgia prioritize the health and well-being of both surrogates and intended parents. Regular medical check-ups, emotional support, and post-birth care ensure that the entire surrogacy process is smooth and stress-free.

Final Thoughts

Choosing the best surrogacy centre in Georgia is a significant decision that can determine the success of your surrogacy journey. With affordable prices, experienced professionals, and a legally supportive environment, Georgia’s top surrogacy centres provide everything needed to help intended parents achieve their dreams of starting a family.

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Benefits of Surrogacy in Georgia: World Fertility Services' Perspective

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Introduction

Surrogacy in Georgia  has many advantages, such as a flexible legal system, easy availability of excellent healthcare facilities, and transparent cost. At World Fertility Services, we take advantage of Georgia's ideal surrogacy climate to offer outstanding support all along the way. Our full services provide a successful and easy surrogacy process through expert legal and medical coordination, financial clarity, and a friendly community. Learn why Georgia is a perfect option for building your family with our expert help.

Awareness of Surrogacy in Georgia

The procedure of surrogacy involves a woman, known as the surrogate, carrying and giving birth to a child on behalf of another person or couple. Georgia has made a name for itself as a surrogacy helpful state thanks to its expert surrogacy lawyers and accommodating laws. Here are some reasons why Georgian surrogacy might be the best option for you.

1. A favourable structure of laws

Sufficient and Effective Surrogacy Laws

Georgia has a strong legal framework for surrogacy, which is one of its main advantages. Clear restrictions and protections for all parties involved in surrogacy are provided under Georgia law. Parental rights are clearly established and contracts are protected by the state's surrogacy laws. This legal protection gives peace of mind to both of them and helps avoid future conflicts.

Legal Professionals

Georgia has a large pool of experienced lawyers who focus on surrogacy. Working closely with leading surrogacy lawyers, we at World Fertility Services make sure that all legal aspects of the surrogacy agreement are managed effectively. Legal paperwork, parental rights, and other important legal matters are certain to be fully addressed thanks to this expertise.

2.Top Medical Facilities

Top Fertility Clinics

Georgia offers surrogacy candidates a choice of modern fertility centres, which is another major benefit. Several well-known fertility clinics with great success rates and advanced reproductive methods may be found in Georgia. These clinics offer a full range of services, which are important for a successful surrogacy journey and include IVF, embryo transfer, and prenatal services.

Skilled Healthcare Workers

Leading Georgian doctors and fertility specialists work together with World Fertility Services. Top medical professionals with expertise in managing surrogacy pregnancies are part of our network. This means that during the procedure, the surrogates and intended parents will receive the best possible medical care.

3. Financial Transparency

Transparent Cost Distribution

Georgia has a clear cost system, but surrogacy can be a major expense. We at World Fertility Services give you a deep overview of all the costs associated with surrogacy, including agency fees, surrogate pay, travel expenditures, and legal fees. This transparency avoids unwanted financial shocks and helps them in budget planning.

Affordable Prices

Georgia frequently has more affordable surrogacy prices when compared to other states. This easyness is brought about by the state's relative low cost of living as well as the efficiency of the surrogacy and healthcare systems in the area. World Fertility Services makes sure that, while maintaining the highest levels of care, you receive the most out of your surrogacy investment.

4. Supportive Environment

Friendly Society

Surrogacy in Georgia provides a friendly and supportive atmosphere for surrogacy agreements. Societies across the state are becoming more open and educated about surrogacy, which creates a supportive environment for would-be parents as well as surrogates. This supportive atmosphere is necessary for a smooth surrogacy process and raises satisfaction levels all around.

Complete Support Services

World Fertility Services offers full support services to make sure that the surrogacy procedure is managed carefully in every way. We provide a wide range of services to assist future parents and surrogates both during the surrogacy process, from emotional support to practical management.

5.Effective Techniques

Easy Processes

Georgia surrogacy benefits from reduced processes that improve the efficiency of the process. Georgia's healthcare institutions and surrogacy firms are skilled at managing all aspects of

surrogacy, which makes the process go more quickly and easily. This efficiency shortens wait periods and speeds up the process of starting a family.

Expert Planning

In terms of surrogacy process collaboration, World Fertility Services is outstanding. Our staff puts a lot of effort into making sure that everything goes well, from finding surrogates to making doctor's appointments. All parties involved may expect a smooth and relaxed experience thanks to this excellent coordination.

6. High Success Rates

Proven Track Record

Georgia's surrogacy groups and fertility clinics have a track record of success. High success rates in surrogacy and fertility treatments belong to the state's highly skilled medical personnel and the latest medical technologies. This success rate gives those who want to fulfil their ambition of becoming parents even more confidence.

Favourable Results

We at World Fertility Services are proud of our history of fruitful surrogacy cases. Georgia has a favourable surrogacy climate, which when paired with our dedication to perfection results in happy families.

Conclusion

Georgia in surrogacy has many advantages, including a friendly atmosphere, affordability, excellent medical facilities, and a supportive legal system. Here at World Fertility Services, we're dedicated to helping you through every stage of the surrogacy process and making sure everything goes well. With our skilled advice and Georgia’s favorable surrogacy climate, building your family may be an exciting and satisfying adventure.For more information on surrogacy in Georgia and to start your journey with World Fertility Services, contact us today. Allow us to help you in achieving your desire to become a parent.

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IVF Cost in Georgia: A Comprehensive Overview

Georgia has emerged as a leading destination for couples seeking affordable and high-quality In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) treatments. With a combination of advanced medical facilities, experienced professionals, and favorable legal frameworks, Georgia offers a compelling option for those looking to start a family through assisted reproductive technology.

Why Choose Georgia for IVF?

Georgia’s reputation in the field of fertility treatment is built on several key factors:

Affordability: One of the primary reasons couples choose Georgia for IVF is the cost-effectiveness. The cost of IVF in Georgia is significantly lower than in many Western countries, without compromising on the quality of care.

World-Class Medical Facilities: Georgia is home to several state-of-the-art fertility clinics that are equipped with the latest technology and staffed by highly trained professionals. These clinics offer a wide range of fertility services, including IVF, egg donation, and surrogacy.

Legal Framework: Georgia has a favorable legal environment for fertility treatments, including clear regulations regarding surrogacy and egg donation. This legal clarity provides peace of mind to couples seeking treatment.

Success Rates: The success rates for IVF in Georgia are on par with, and sometimes exceed, those in other countries. This is due to the combination of advanced technology and experienced medical staff.

Breakdown of IVF Costs in Georgia

The cost of IVF in Georgia can vary depending on several factors, including the specific clinic, the complexity of the case, and any additional treatments that may be required. However, the following is a general breakdown of what to expect:

Initial Consultation: The first step in the IVF process is an initial consultation, which typically costs between $100 and $200. This includes a thorough medical examination and a discussion of the treatment plan.

IVF Procedure: The core cost of the IVF procedure itself usually ranges from $3,000 to $6,000. This includes ovarian stimulation, egg retrieval, fertilization, and embryo transfer.

Medications: Medications are a significant part of the IVF process, and the cost can range from $1,000 to $3,000, depending on the protocol prescribed by the fertility specialist.

Additional Procedures: In some cases, additional procedures such as Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI) or Preimplantation Genetic Testing (PGT) may be recommended. These can add anywhere from $1,000 to $2,500 to the total cost.

Cryopreservation: If you choose to freeze embryos for future use, the cost of cryopreservation is typically around $500 to $1,000, with an additional annual storage fee.

Factors Influencing the Cost of IVF in Georgia

Several factors can influence the overall cost of IVF in Georgia, including:

Age of the Patient: Younger women generally have higher success rates, which can reduce the need for multiple IVF cycles and lower the overall cost.

Medical History: Patients with complex medical histories may require additional treatments or procedures, which can increase the total cost.

Choice of Clinic: The cost can vary significantly depending on the clinic chosen. Selecting a clinic with a proven track record of success and transparent pricing is important.

Conclusion

Georgia offers excellent affordability, high-quality care, and favorable legal conditions for those seeking IVF treatment. With costs significantly lower than in many Western countries, Georgia is an attractive option for couples looking to start or expand their families. By choosing Georgia for IVF, you are not only investing in top-tier medical care but also ensuring that your journey towards parenthood is supported by a system designed to facilitate success.

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Egg donation surrogacy in Georgia

Egg donation surrogacy in Georgia is a viable option for couples seeking to extend their families. Surrogacy is a legal and well-regulated process in Georgia, making it a safe choice for intended parents. This method entails IVF, in which a donor egg is fertilized with the desired father’s sperm. This embryo is subsequently put into the surrogate’s uterus.

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What has made gestational surrogacy in Georgia so popular?

In Georgia, gestational surrogacy—where a surrogate mother carries a child born via IVF using the eggs and sperm of the intending parents or donors—has grown rather common. That said, several elements can help to explain this increase, including supportive legal conditions, first-rate medical treatment, and somewhat low cost. With an emphasis on important factors such the rising acceptance of surrogacy for same-sex couples, the cost involved, and the function of surrogacy agencies, we will investigate the main reasons for the rising popularity of gestational surrogacy in Georgia in this article.

Supportive legal structure

The encouraging legal environment of gestational surrogacy in Georgia is one of the main factors behind its growth. Georgia has a clear and beneficial legal framework unlike many nations where surrogacy regulations are either non-existent or severely limited. Also, legal recognition of surrogacy arrangements is provided; the name of the intended parents appears on the birth certificate without judicial rulings. This is where Georgia comes as a desirable location for surrogacy since this legal clarity guarantees confidence to all the interested parties.

Access to same sex surrogacy

The country is also renowned for its modern approach to surrogacy for same sex in Georgia. While many nations forbid or restrict surrogacy for same-sex couples, Georgia approves it. Also, Georgia has been a favorite destination for gay surrogacy because of its inclusiveness, giving same-sex couples the chance to begin a family. One major reason Georgia is so well-known in the surrogacy domain is the legal acceptance and protection given to same-sex couples looking for surrogacy.

Superior Medical Treatments

Another important determinant of the growing popularity of gestational surrogacy in Georgia is the availability of higher standard medical facilities and qualified healthcare providers. From initial consultations to post-birth treatment, the nation boasts multiple top-notch fertility clinics and surrogacy agencies providing comprehensive services. These facilities guarantee great success rates and give first-rate treatment to intended parents as well as surrogates through qualified doctors, embryologists, and support staff.

Lower Surrogacy cost in Georgia

Many intended parents give cost a lot of thought while deciding on a surrogacy destination. Especially about nations like the United States, gestational surrogacy in Georgia is reasonably priced. Medical treatments, legal fees, surrogate pay, and other related costs comprise lower surrogacy cost in Georgia. Many couples and people looking for surrogacy find Georgia appealing because of its affordability and excellent services.

Surrogacy Center in Georgia

Providing a wide spectrum of services to intended parents and surrogates, surrogacy center in Georgia play a key part in the surrogacy process These centers provide medical treatment, legal advice, psychiatric counseling, and logistical coordination among other thorough services. Through managing all facets of the surrogacy process, these facilities guarantee a flawless and stress-free experience for intended parents and surrogates.

Working with a Georgia surrogacy clinic is one of the main benefits in terms of tailored attention to every case. These institutions are aware of the particular needs and worries of intended parents—especially those from several legal and cultural backgrounds. Customized services allow surrogacy facilities to close the distance and enable smooth surrogacy trips.

Growing Global Understanding

Georgia's increasing appeal partly stems from its international reputation as a surrogacy-friendly location. Positive testimonies and success stories from intended parents who have effectively finished their surrogacy journey in Georgia have gone via online channels and word-of-mouth. This good name draws more intended parents from all around the world, therefore building a varied and supportive surrogacy community.

Government Support and Control Policies

The surge in surrogacy or even gay surrogacy in Georgia has also been much influenced by the government's backing of these procedures. Clear rules and careful monitoring of surrogacy procedures help the government to guarantee moral standards and the safeguarding of all the participants. This legal structure helps intended parents, surrogates, and surrogacy companies to develop confidence and trust, therefore enhancing Georgia's reputation as a dependable surrogate destination.

Surrogacy Motivated by Medical Needs

Medical factors that keep them from carrying a pregnancy to term lead many intended parents in Georgia to seek gestational surrogacy. For some couples, medical concerns like infertility, frequent miscarriages, or absence of a uterus make surrogacy the only realistic choice. For these couples, Georgia's superior medical system and seasoned reproductive experts provide hope and a workable road to parenting.

Final words

Many elements working together to provide a suitable atmosphere for gestational surrogacy have helped gestational surrogacy become rather common in Georgia. Georgia's position as a top surrogacy destination stems from the supportive legislative framework, inclusive policies for same-sex couples, first-rate medical services, reasonable rates, and the part dedicated surrogacy clinics play.

Georgia's surrogacy scene keeps changing as more intended parents look for consistent and encouraging surroundings to start their families. That said, Georgia is poised to be a top choice for gestational surrogacy going forward with continuous government support, international recognition, and the dedication of surrogacy centers.

On the other hand, Georgia provides a kind and encouraging environment to assist you realize your dream of motherhood whether your reason for pursuing surrogacy is medical, same-sex couple, or due to other personal situations.

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Christian conservative group opposes IVF for the most bizarre reason yet

The anti-LGBTQ+ group Family Research Council (FRC) opposes in vitro fertilization (IVF), a conception method responsible for roughly 2.3% of all infants born in the U.S. and often used by LGBTQ+ couples, because IVF clinics use pornography to get sperm from donors. “Pornography is an integral part of the IVF process. And the husband’s use of pornography is typically how sperm was obtained. That’s not good for a marriage. We know that pornography goes against what God tells us about the dignity of men and women in a marriage,” said Mary Szoch, director of the FRC’s Center for Human Dignity (the FRC’s anti-abortion division), in a recent video. Related A couple’s fight over frozen embryos could upend IVF access in Texas The case is no doubt part of the predicted “domino effect” stemming from the Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling declaring embryos as legal children. Married heterosexual couples who regularly view pornography report higher levels of relationship dissatisfaction and are more likely to get divorced, according to a 2020 study. However, the study couldn’t show which way the causation ran. That is, it’s not clear if porn causes relationship dissatisfaction or if dissatisfied partners are more likely to view porn. LGBTQ+ news you can rely on Keep track of the ongoing battle against bias and for equality with our newsletter. Subscribe to our Newsletter today Of course, the FRC’s opposition to IVF is also shared by numerous Republican legislators who view fertilized embryos as living people and who view the discarding of such embryos as a form of murder. IVF, as it’s performed today, requires the creation of multiple fertilized embryos to increase the chances that at least one will lead to a pregnancy. To date, three states — Missouri, Alabama, and Georgia — have laws that grant personhood to fertilized embryos. Arizona enacted a law granting those rights as well, but it’s currently blocked. A dozen other states have introduced legislation this year that would legally declare embryos as people. IVF is also commonly used by same-sex couples to conceive children. As such, efforts to restrict IVF access particularly harm LGBTQ+ people who want to become parents. Mary Szoch of the Family Research Council is really digging deep to rationalize the organization's opposition to IVF: "Pornography is an integral part of the IVF process … That's not good for a marriage." pic.twitter.com/DQKGr2sP5I— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) May 22, 2024 While the FRC describes itself as a church and, previously, as an educational non-profit, it’s foremost an anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-abortion organization, designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. It was founded in 1981 by James Dobson, a longtime homophobe who also founded Focus on the Family (FOF), the largest theocratic-right organization in the United States. Both FOF and FRC oppose same-sex marriage and sex education in schools (except “abstinence-only”), support so-called conversion therapy, and generally oppose anything that promotes the so-called “homosexual agenda” — even concepts of tolerance and diversity which, according to Dobson, are “buzzwords for homosexual advocacy.” According to Dobson, the goals of this homosexual movement include “universal acceptance of the gay lifestyle, the discrediting of Scriptures that condemn homosexuality, muzzling of the clergy and Christian media, granting special privileges and rights in the law, overturning laws prohibiting pedophilia, indoctrination of children and future generations through public education, and securing all the legal benefits of marriage for any two or more people who claim to have homosexual tendencies.” Peter Sprigg, FRC’s Senior Researcher for Policy Studies, says that same-sex sexuality should be legislated and declared illegal and that “criminal sanctions against homosexual behavior” should be enforced. He also argued that repealing the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy encourages the… http://dlvr.it/T7Q6bQ

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The last several days have seen a Republican stampede to distance the party from the Alabama Supreme Court’s decision of a week ago, when it ruled that embryos frozen for in vitro fertilization (IVF) should be considered children and that their injury can be treated like injury to a child. That decision has led major healthcare providers in Alabama to stop IVF procedures out of fear of prosecution.

IVF is very popular—about 2% of babies born in the U.S. are the product of IVF—and Republicans recognize that endangering the procedure has the potential to be a dealbreaker in the upcoming election.

The fury at the Alabama decision of those who have spent years and tens of thousands of dollars in their quest to be parents was articulated yesterday in a conversation between Abbey Crain and Stephanie McNeal of Glamour, in which Crain recounted her five-year IVF journey and noted that the Alabama justice who wrote the decision, Jay Mitchell, “who,” as she said, “lives five miles down the road from me, goes to a church that people in my circle go to, and has children in schools in my community, has more of a say in whether and when I get to be a mom than me.”

The Alabama decision is a direct result of the June 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, decided thanks to the three religious extremists former president Trump nominated to the Supreme Court. That decision referred to fetuses as “unborn human being[s]” when it overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision recognizing the constitutional right to abortion. The Alabama decision cited the Dobbs case 15 times, relying on it to establish that “the unborn” are “living persons with rights and interests.”

Republicans are now denying they intended to halt IVF with their antiabortion stance and their appointment of religious extremists to the courts. But that position doesn’t square with the fact that since the Dobbs decision, they have pressed for so-called personhood laws, laws that give the full rights of a person to an embryo from the time of conception. Since Dobbs, sixteen state legislatures have introduced personhood laws, and four Republican-dominated states—Missouri, Georgia, Alabama, and Arizona, although Arizona’s has been blocked—have passed them.

In the U.S. House of Representatives, Republicans introduced a national personhood bill as soon as they took control in January 2023. The bill, titled “Life at Conception Act,” currently has 124 co-sponsors, including House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA). On Friday, Johnson claimed to support IVF, raising the question of what exactly that support for IVF means, considering the process requires discarding certain embryos.

In the U.S. Senate, Rand Paul (R-KY) introduced a “Life at Conception Act” on January 28, 2021. It currently has 18 co-sponsors, including Steve Daines (R-MT), who is the head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), the official campaign organization to elect Republican senators. On Friday the NRSC distributed a memo to candidates telling them to “align with the public’s overwhelming support for IVF and fertility treatments.”

While it is the IVF story that has garnered the most attention this weekend—likely because it has obvious implications for the 2024 election and Republicans have tried to rush away from it—it is simply a different facet of a larger story: the leaders of the Republican Party are working to overthrow democracy.

On February 15, news broke that Alexander Smirnov, the informant who had provided the “evidence” that then–vice president Joe Biden and his son had each taken a $5 million bribe from the Ukrainian oil and gas company Burisma, had been indicted by a federal grand jury for lying and “creating a false and fictitious record.” On February 20, Trump-appointed Special Counsel David Weiss of the Justice Department filed a document concluding that Smirnov has “extensive and extremely recent” ties with “Russian intelligence agencies.”

The use of Russian disinformation to destabilize democracy in the U.S. looks much like the information warfare Russia has used to establish Ukrainian leaders that worked for the Kremlin. It was the ouster of one of those leaders, Viktor Yanukovych, in the 2014 Maidan Revolution ten years ago that prompted Russian president Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine later that year. Yanukovych won office with the help of American political consultant Paul Manafort, who advised and, briefly, chaired the Trump campaign in 2016, when it weakened the Republican party’s platform plank that supported arming Ukraine against Putin after his 2014 invasion.

Seeding lies about corruption that came from Russian-linked Ukrainians was central to Trump’s 2019 impeachment: his phone call to Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky demanding Zelensky announce an investigation into Burisma and Joe Biden’s son Hunter was part of an attempt to create dirt on the Bidens. That call happened after Trump’s advisor Rudy Giuliani went to Ukraine, where he talked to “an active Russian agent,” according to the FBI. FBI agents warned Giuliani that he was a target of Russian disinformation.

That poison has now spread from Trump’s rogue team in the White House to the Republican Party itself, which has apparently been carrying water for Putin at the very center of our government.

Meanwhile, under pressure from Trump loyalists in the House, Speaker Johnson is refusing to take up a measure to aid Ukraine in its resistance to Russia’s 2022 invasion. Such a measure is popular in the U.S., both among the population in general and among lawmakers. While other countries can provide funds, only the U.S. has enough of the required war matériel Ukraine so desperately needs. Already, Russia has managed to retake the key city of Avdiivka because Ukraine’s troops don’t have enough ammunition, and today Jimmy Rushton, a Kyiv-based foreign policy analyst, quoted a Ukrainian officer’s report that they can’t “medivac our guys from the contact line anymore because we don’t have any artillery ammunition to suppress the Russians. We have to leave them to die.”

The reluctance of House Republicans to support Ukraine has global implications. Putin is trying to tear up the rules-based international order that has protected international boundaries since World War II, while Trump has threatened to destroy the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) that holds back Russian aggression. In the Wall Street Journal on Friday, chief foreign affairs correspondent Yaroslav Trofimov noted that European countries are worried that the U.S. will not defend its allies, while Putin has made “a de facto military alliance with the rogue regimes of North Korea and Iran while growing closer and closer to authoritarian China.”

European nations have expanded their own military production and support for Ukraine; Poland and the Baltic states have invested far more in their militaries than NATO’s threshold of 2% of a nation’s gross domestic product. In the Washington Post, Michael Birnbaum reported Friday that some of the nations that border Russia are looking again at land mines, concertina wire, and trenches—the technology of last century’s wars—to protect themselves from a Russian invasion.

Putin and allies like Viktor Orbán of Hungary have been clear they believe democracy is obsolete. Far-right extremists in the United States agree, insisting that democracy’s demand for equal rights before the law undermines society as immigration, LGBTQ+ rights, and women’s rights challenge “traditional” values. That ideological justification has led many white evangelical Christians to flock to Trump’s strongman persona.

How religion and authoritarianism have come together in modern America was on display Thursday, when right-wing activist Jack Posobiec opened this weekend’s conference of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) outside Washington, D.C., with the words: “Welcome to the end of democracy. We are here to overthrow it completely. We didn’t get all the way there on January 6, but we will endeavor to get rid of it and replace it with this right here.” He held up a cross necklace and continued: “After we burn that swamp to the ground, we will establish the new American republic on its ashes, and our first order of business will be righteous retribution for those who betrayed America.”

But Saturday’s South Carolina Republican primary suggested that the drive to lay waste to American democracy is not popular. Trump won the state, as expected, by about 60%—lower than predicted. Former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley won 40% of the vote. This means that Trump will have to continue spending money he doesn’t currently have on his campaign.

More important than that, even, is that it shows that even in a strongly Republican state, 40% of primary voters—the party’s most loyal voters—prefer someone else. As Mike Allen of Axios wrote today: “If America were dominated by old, white, election-denying Christians who didn’t go to college, former President Trump would win the general election in…a landslide.” But, Allen added, “It’s not.”

Which may be precisely why Trump loyalists intend to overthrow democracy.

— 𝐅𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟐𝟓, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐂𝐎𝐗 𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐃𝐒𝐎𝐍

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Introduction:

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