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Chinese Egg-Freezing Lawsuit Exemplifies Persistent Inequalities

Chinese Egg-Freezing Lawsuit Exemplifies Persistent Inequalities

Above The LawPatricia NelsonJanuary 16, 2020

Buyer Beware: A Maryland Surrogacy Agency Was Scamming Vulnerable Hopeful Parents

Buyer Beware: A Maryland Surrogacy Agency Was Scamming Vulnerable Hopeful Parents

Above The LawPatricia NelsonJanuary 9, 2020maryland, surrogacy law, abovethelaw, newenglandsurrogacy, scam, surrogacyscam

Hong Kong Court Says No Jail Time For Parents By Surrogacy. But What About Their Attorneys?

Hong Kong Court Says No Jail Time For Parents By Surrogacy. But What About Their Attorneys?

Above The LawPatricia NelsonDecember 19, 2019Above The Law, surrogacy, HongKong, surrogacylaw, attorney, NewEnglandSurrogacy

How Will Newly Confirmed Judge Sarah Pitlyk Rule In Surrogacy Cases?

How Will Newly Confirmed Judge Sarah Pitlyk Rule In Surrogacy Cases?

Above The LawPatricia NelsonDecember 12, 2019surrogacy law, assi, abo, federaljudge, sarahpitlyk

Rabbinical Court Rejects Donor-Conceived Child As Jewish

Rabbinical Court Rejects Donor-Conceived Child As Jewish

Above The LawPatricia NelsonDecember 5, 2019donor conceived, religiouscomplications, surrogacy, NewEnglandSurrogacy, Above The Law, ellentrachman

Dramatic Case Results In the First United Arab Emirates Surrogacy Ruling

Dramatic Case Results In the First United Arab Emirates Surrogacy Ruling

Above The LawPatricia NelsonNovember 28, 2019Surrogacy, surrogacy law, abovethelaw, NewEnglandSurrogacy

Do Attorneys Need Even More Regulation? Some Think The Surrogacy Ones Do.

Do Attorneys Need Even More Regulation? Some Think The Surrogacy Ones Do.

Above The LawPatricia NelsonNovember 21, 2019attorney, surrogacy, regulation, Above The Law

Connecticut Supreme Court Restores Reason To Embryo Wars, Also Punts On Key Questions

Connecticut Supreme Court Restores Reason To Embryo Wars, Also Punts On Key Questions

Above The Law, ConnecticutPatricia NelsonNovember 14, 2019embryowars, ivf, connecticut, abovethelaw

Colorado Is Unfortunately The Latest To Have A Doctor Using His Own Sperm To Impregnate Patients

Colorado Is Unfortunately The Latest To Have A Doctor Using His Own Sperm To Impregnate Patients

Above The LawPatricia NelsonNovember 7, 2019abovethelaw, spermdonor

Scarier Than Halloween: Polish Government Legalizes Involuntary ‘Donation’ Of Embryos

Scarier Than Halloween: Polish Government Legalizes Involuntary ‘Donation’ Of Embryos

Above The LawPatricia NelsonOctober 31, 2019Polishgovernment, Above The Law, embryos, surrogacy, NewEnglandSurrogacy

Beware Of The Home DNA Test! Mom Strikes Back Against Sperm Bank

Beware Of The Home DNA Test! Mom Strikes Back Against Sperm Bank

Above The LawPatricia NelsonOctober 24, 2019DNA test, DNA Kit, sperm bank, Surrogacy, above the law, Newen

Transgender Man Ruled ‘Mother’ Of His Child

Transgender Man Ruled ‘Mother’ Of His Child

Above The LawPatricia NelsonOctober 16, 2019Surrogacy, LGBTQ, transgender, Family Law, Above The Law

Sperm Donor Sues Because His Medical School Misused His Sperm

Sperm Donor Sues Because His Medical School Misused His Sperm

Above The LawPatricia NelsonOctober 10, 2019sperm, spermdonor, medschool

Is The U.S. Discriminating Against Gay Parents? Or Everyone With A Donor-Conceived Child Born Overseas?

Is The U.S. Discriminating Against Gay Parents? Or Everyone With A Donor-Conceived Child Born Overseas?

Above The LawPatricia NelsonOctober 3, 2019NewEnglandSurrogacy, gay parenthood, Above The Law, donor conceived, InternationalSurrogacy

Attorneys And Advocacy: What To Do When The Law In Your State Is Hostile To Family-Building (Looking At You, New York)

Attorneys And Advocacy: What To Do When The Law In Your State Is Hostile To Family-Building (Looking At You, New York)

Above The LawPatricia NelsonSeptember 26, 2019surrogacy, newyorklaws, assisted reproductive technology, Above The Law

Sperm Donor Linked To Autism Cluster — Scientifically Fascinating, Legally Complicated

Sperm Donor Linked To Autism Cluster — Scientifically Fascinating, Legally Complicated

Above The LawPatricia NelsonSeptember 19, 2019NewEnglandSurrogacy, surrogacy, pregnancy, spermdonor, autismcluster, science

73-Year-Old Sets Record For Oldest Woman To Give Birth… So Far

73-Year-Old Sets Record For Oldest Woman To Give Birth… So Far

Above The LawPatricia NelsonSeptember 12, 2019NewEnglandSurrogacy, Above The Law, surrogacy, pregnancy, pregnantat73

Donor Anonymity Walls Are Crumbling – And This New California Law Is Helping

Donor Anonymity Walls Are Crumbling – And This New California Law Is Helping

Above The LawPatricia NelsonSeptember 5, 2019dna, donoranonymity, californialaw, above the law, NewEnglandSurrogacy

France Proposes Allowing Women Rights That Are Shockingly Not Currently Permitted

France Proposes Allowing Women Rights That Are Shockingly Not Currently Permitted

Above The LawPatricia NelsonAugust 29, 2019womensrights, france, surrogacy, abovethelaw, newenglandsurrogacy

New Hampshire Shows Its Baby Love (And Practical Side) By Passing Fertility Access Law

New Hampshire Shows Its Baby Love (And Practical Side) By Passing Fertility Access Law

Above The Law, New HampshirePatricia NelsonAugust 22, 2019fertilitylaw, fertility benefits, surrogacy, newenglandsurrogacy, above the law