A taxing issue for egg donors?
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. “It’s a slam dunk. There’s no doubt this is taxable,” Bridget Crawford of the Pace University of Law told Wall Street [...]

California law sidesteps the real issues on egg donation
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 [...]

Are Indian Surrogacies Giving Women a Hand-Up…or Exploiting Them?
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 [...]

Why it’s fitting that ASRM expelled Octomom’s fertility specialist
By Robin von Halle You may have heard it on the news: “Octomom” 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 [...]

What’s sunny for Philly casts clouds on surrogacy
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 [...]