Two gay men who both attended law school filed a legal complaint against the City of New York arguing that not having access to a woman's reproductive potential is a form of discrimination, and that they are entitled to have the City pay for a "surrogate".
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One of the men is a former sex crimes prosecutor who compared surrogacy to prostitution, and reduced the violence, rape, imprisonment and mortal danger involved in the sex trafficking industry to "not being compensated for sex work".
“Gay men now want insurance companies to treat being born male as a disability or as a protected category, one which requires paid compensation. They are protesting the ‘unfairness’ of not having been born biologically female.”
Analyzing health records of more than a million Danish children, researchers found that babies conceived through surrogacy involving frozen embryo transfer were more than twice as likely to develop childhood cancer, particularly leukemia and neuroblastoma.
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Ron Poole-Dayan, executive director of surrogacy organization Men Having Babies, says “surrogacy is a gay issue,” adoption is “not a way to become parents”, and defines gay men’s inability to reproduce as the equivalent of medical infertility.
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