Keen News Service, April 22, 2011 – By Lisa Keen A man accused of helping a former lesbian sneak a child out of the country, violating a court order that the mother turn the child over to her former same-sex partner, was arrested April 18 and will be arraigned in federal court in Vermont on Monday, April 25. According to court documents, the FBI arrested Timothy David Miller in Alexandria, Virginia, on charges that he aided in the international...

Married couples will have preference when it comes to adopting children under a new measure signed into law by Gov. Jan Brewer on Monday. Senate Bill 1188, which was sponsored by Sen. Linda Gray, R-Glendale, would require an adoption agency to give primary consideration to adoptive placement with a married man and woman, with all other criteria being equal. Agencies are also supposed to consider other factors, including possible placement with relatives,...

Washington Post – 4.20.11 By Anita Kumar RICHMOND — The State Board of Social Services has voted overwhelmingly against new adoption rules that some say would allow same-sex couples to adopt in the state for the first time. In a 7-2 vote Wednesday afternoon, the board opted against the new rules, first proposed by former governor Tim Kaine. In Virginia, only married couples and single men and women, regardless of sexual orientation,...

Human Egg Donor Services Antitrust Class Action Lawsuit ComplaintApril 13, 2011   A class action lawsuit has been filed against American Society For Reproductive Medicine (“ASRM”), Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (“SART”) and Pacific Fertility Center (collectively “Defendants”) in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California (styled Lindsay Kamakahi v. American Society For Reproductive Medicine,...

April 7, 2011 – New York Times By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — A French family detained in Ukraine for trying to smuggle out twins born to a surrogate mother is asking any sympathetic country to grant the children citizenship. The family was detained last month while trying to take the 2-month-old girls into Hungary. France does not recognize the citizenship of children born to surrogate mothers and is refusing to issue passports...

By Anita Kumar, Monday, April , 8:38 PM Washington Post RICHMOND — Republican Gov. Robert F. McDonnell is considering whether to try to derail proposed regulations developed by his Democratic predecessor that would for the first time allow gay couples to adopt children in Virginia. McDonnell has less than two weeks to act on the regulations that would force state-licensed private and church-run agencies to allow unmarried couples — heterosexual...

Mombian.com, Friday April 1, 2011 Lesbians seeking to get pregnant now have a new tool at their disposal: Dōnr, a new app for mobile devices that lets women check out the credentials of potential sperm donors. Like Grindr, the social app that helps gay men find potential mates nearby, Dōnr lets lesbians access profiles of men in close proximity to see if they might be suitable candidates for providing genetic material. “Lesbians have long used...