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		<title>A taxing issue for egg donors?</title>
		<link>http://conceptionconnections.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/a-taxing-issue-for-egg-donors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robin von Halle
Are your organs, your blood, even your eggs property? If so, should you be taxed on the proceeds when you give that blood or those eggs? Two law school professors say yes.
&#8220;It&#8217;s a slam dunk. There&#8217;s no doubt this is taxable,&#8221; Bridget Crawford of the Pace University of Law told Wall Street [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conceptionconnections.wordpress.com&blog=2253767&post=139&subd=conceptionconnections&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>California law sidesteps the real issues on egg donation</title>
		<link>http://conceptionconnections.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/california-law-sidesteps-the-real-issues-on-egg-donation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robin von Halle
California has passed a new law requiring the state’s fertility industry to post health risk warnings in their egg donation ads. Advertisements must now encourage women to consult with reproductive health care specialists before making any decisions.
Good advice. But it’s misplaced. The legislation does nothing to solve the problems it addresses. Without [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conceptionconnections.wordpress.com&blog=2253767&post=135&subd=conceptionconnections&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are Indian Surrogacies Giving Women a Hand-Up…or Exploiting Them?</title>
		<link>http://conceptionconnections.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/are-indian-surrogacies-giving-women-a-hand-up%e2%80%a6or-exploiting-them/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gestational Surrogacy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robin von Halle
More and more Americans are choosing overseas gestational surrogates, particularly poor, uneducated Indians. It raises troubling issues that intended parents and the fertility industry need to consider.
The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal recently reported that India’s surrogacy industry has grown by $500 million since the process was legalized in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conceptionconnections.wordpress.com&blog=2253767&post=130&subd=conceptionconnections&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why it’s fitting that ASRM expelled Octomom’s fertility specialist</title>
		<link>http://conceptionconnections.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/why-it%e2%80%99s-fitting-that-asrm-expelled-octomom%e2%80%99s-fertility-specialist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Multiple Births]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robin von Halle
You may have heard it on the news: &#8220;Octomom&#8221; Nadya Suleman’s doctor has been expelled from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) for transferring six embryos into the 33-year old woman, which resulted in the much-discussed birth of eight babies (after two of the embryos split).
Good move.
We have been working with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conceptionconnections.wordpress.com&blog=2253767&post=125&subd=conceptionconnections&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What’s sunny for Philly casts clouds on surrogacy</title>
		<link>http://conceptionconnections.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/what%e2%80%99s-sunny-for-philly-casts-clouds-on-surrogacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://conceptionconnections.wordpress.com/?p=120</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Robin von Halle
The television show, “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” had its fall premier a few weeks ago with its lead female character, Sweet Dee, wanting to be a surrogate.
“Baby Mama” created the perception that all surrogates are uneducated and desperate. This show took it all to a whole new level.
The plot has Sweet [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conceptionconnections.wordpress.com&blog=2253767&post=120&subd=conceptionconnections&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Insurance and Surrogacy</title>
		<link>http://conceptionconnections.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/insurance-and-surrogacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:32:55 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Gestational Surrogacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IVF]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mary Ellen McLaughlin
My, how times have changed, especially when it comes to health insurance and surrogacy. Nine years ago, when ARR started its surrogacy services, the majority of the surrogate’s health insurance plans covered the pregnancy.
Today, over 90 percent of our surrogates pregnancies are not covered by their own health plans as insurers devise [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conceptionconnections.wordpress.com&blog=2253767&post=118&subd=conceptionconnections&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Age Factor</title>
		<link>http://conceptionconnections.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/the-age-factor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Egg Donation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robin von Halle
It’s a fact, as USA Today recently reported: more women are waiting to start families. And it’s also a fact that the longer a woman waits, the harder it becomes to get pregnant.
That’s the bad news. The good news is that in today’s world, alternative methods to procreation like egg donation and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conceptionconnections.wordpress.com&blog=2253767&post=115&subd=conceptionconnections&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Even if you now can have babies in your 60s, should you?</title>
		<link>http://conceptionconnections.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/even-if-you-now-can-have-babies-in-your-60s-should-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://conceptionconnections.wordpress.com/?p=109</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Robin von Halle
The world of fertility can be hugely controversial. Whether it’s abortion, or techniques like  donated eggs or gestational surrogacy, or decisions by people like the “Octo Mom,” it’s hard to get away from public opinions and attitudes.
And of course, the media covers the most outrageous instances or those involving public figures and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conceptionconnections.wordpress.com&blog=2253767&post=109&subd=conceptionconnections&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Should Surrogacy Agencies be Regulated?</title>
		<link>http://conceptionconnections.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/should-surrogacy-agencies-be-regulated/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Maryellen McLaughlin
Here we go again. There’s another story in the news about a surrogacy agency that not only mishandled the intended parents’ money, but their surrogate’s payments, as well.
St. Louis Today discusses the current scandals surrounding surrogacy and a possible push to regulate agencies.
Developing a set of regulations for surrogacy is an idea that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conceptionconnections.wordpress.com&blog=2253767&post=107&subd=conceptionconnections&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Should celebrities come clean on fertility treatments?</title>
		<link>http://conceptionconnections.wordpress.com/2009/05/18/should-celebrities-come-clean-on-fertility-treatments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 19:53:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Maryellen McLaughlin
Television personality Joan Lunden recently blogged that she hoped “the media (and the rest of us) will let Sarah Jessica [Parker] and Matthew [Broderick] enjoy this happy time in their lives and stop asking inappropriate personal questions about every detail of how they created their child. If we are raised properly, we know [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conceptionconnections.wordpress.com&blog=2253767&post=105&subd=conceptionconnections&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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