Legally Speaking

Legislative Updates and Fertility Fraud Update

Legally Speaking Feb 15, 2021

New York’s long-awaited Child Parent Security Act (CPSA), which allows compensated surrogacy, went into effect February 15, 2021. CPSA law addresses and regulates gestational surrogacy only, not traditional/genetic surrogacy, and expressly allows compensation for gestational surrogates along with multiple required protections.

HFEA Changes Surrogacy Rules on Exporting Sperm, Eggs and Embryos from U.K. to U.S.

Legally Speaking Dec 08, 2020

U.K. intended parents who wish to transport their gametes or embryos to clinics in the U.S. to conceive with a gestational carrier will now be able to arrange export much more straightforwardly.

California Court Denies Widow Right to Posthumous Reproduction

Legally Speaking Nov 16, 2020

The Potential Impact of Reversing or Restricting the Constitutional Protections of Roe v. Wade

Legally Speaking Oct 12, 2020

Without the privacy protections of Roe and its progeny, states would be free--as some have repeatedly tried to do already--to enact laws that confer legal “personhood” beginning at fertilization. These would severely restrict the practice of IVF and pregnancy management.

The Impact of a Pandemic on International Surrogacy: An Interview with ART Attorneys Margaret Swain and Nidhi Desai

Legally Speaking Aug 18, 2020

This month's column addresses Pandemic related challenges that have arisen for participants and professionals involved in the steps of international surrogacy arrangements, and how they have been met.