April 20, 2017 It is illegal to pay surrogacy fees in B.C. – one is only allowed to pay for the expenses a gestational carrier has in relation to her pregnancy. But the B.C. Supreme Court ruled this week that a woman who was pregnant when she was in a car accident, but who could […]
Craig Parkes and Matthew Hinton wanted to have a child. First they tried to do so with the help of a gestational carrier (surrogate mother) in India – but in the middle of the process India outlawed surrogacy for gay couples. They were finally able to have a baby with the help of the sister […]
The B.C. Court of Appeal has decided that sperm is property…at least sometimes. In a decision released in 2015, the Court considered an action brought by men who had stored their sperm in a sperm bank at UBC. The freezer in which the sperm was stored lost power and the sperm were damaged. The question […]
You may remember the story in the news about the first three-parent family in B.C. The three parents – two lesbians and the man who donated sperm for the conception of their child – agreed that all three of them would be parents. So the child’s birth certificate records three legal parents. How does that […]
Thanks to Agnes Huang for passing on this story of a surrogate mom who learned she was carrying a child with congenital defects, and of the surrogate parents who no longer wanted the child. In BC, under the Family Law Act, a child is the child of the woman who gave birth to her, even […]
Finally, since March 2013, the law offers certainty to queers who want to become parents. For prospective queer parents, a donation of sperm or eggs is a necessity. Gay dads, couples with a trans parent, or infertile lesbians also need a surrogate (a woman who will carry the child). Sperm donors can be either known […]
