Posted on January 28, 2010 by Gideon Alper -GayCouplesLawBlog.com - Seattle University Law School professor Julie Shapiro had a interesting post this past weekend on why lesbians should think twice before using a known sperm donor. Professor Shapiro points out what’s unique about a California where a lesbian couple split up five months after one woman gave birth to twins. Now they fight for custody. Smith [the non-birth mother] is not simply...

by Kilian Melloy Monday Jan 11, 2010 A Canadian lesbian couple and the sperm donor who helped them conceive are in a feud over parental rights–and at the forefront of family law. Because Canadian law does not permit monetary exchange for sperm donations, all but one of the nation’s sperm banks have shut down. That leaves lesbian couples that wish to conceive on their own to find a donor, but when they solicit genetic material from friends,...

January 2, 1:47 AMInternational LGBT Issues ExaminerKelvin Lynch Lisa Miller, an ‘ex-gay’ evangelical Christian who was in a lesbian relationship in Vermont for four years, has abducted the former couple’s 7-year-old daughter following a court order awarding sole custody to her former partner. Miller renounced being gay in 2004 and took the child, Isabella, from Vermont to Virginia.  A judge awarded her former partner, Janet Jenkins,...

The ethics of sperm donation By John Milbank, Centre of Theology and Philosophy, University of Nottingham   19 June 2009 Should donators of sperm remain anonymous? Some people say yes, others say no. But most assume that the argument is in principle resolvable if we can apply the right principles in relation to accurate evidence. But supposing it isn’t? Supposing the argument is demonstrably irresolvable? Supposing...

June 26, 2009, New York TImes By LIBBY NELSON Stem cell researchers in New York can now use public money to pay women who give their eggs for research, a decision that has opened new possibilities for science but raised concern among some bioethicists and opponents of such research. The decision by the Empire State Stem Cell Board, announced two weeks ago, is believed by the board to be the first in the country allowing state research money to be...