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The Language Committee of Parents Via Egg Donation, http://www.parentsviaeggdonation.org  a nonprofit organization, is creating a document to reflect the language of families created through gamete donation. Just as Positive Adoption Language (PAL) finally legitimized and clarified the role of birth and adoptive families, so too, do we intend to educate as to how and what to call the various participants of families created through assisted reproductive options.

The intent is to distribute this document to the media and to others so that journalists will have appropriate language to use in describing our families. To do this, we would like to know what language you as parents, siblings, and professionals in the field of family building prefer to use.

Answers to these questions are completely anonymous. Please help us know what language is appropriate to use when describing families of gamete donation. The entire survey should take approximately 15 minutes.

The survey can be found here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/gametedonationlanguage

Thank You.

Carole Lieber Wilkins, MFT and Britta Dinsmore, Ph.D., Co-Chairs
Parents Via Egg Donation

The Supreme Court of Canada will hand down a decision in the oldest case on its books Wednesday when it settles a dispute between Quebec and the federal government over who controls the country’s fertility industry.

Read more: http://www.theprovince.com/health/Supreme+Court+rule+fertility+industry/4000120/story.html#ixzz18qTRYE00

THIS Christmas will be extra special for one Grantham family who will be celebrating with their twin boys after eight years of trying for children.

Susan and Jason Lupton, of Neals Crescent, Grantham, are thrilled to have sons Bradley and Daniel thanks to an unknown egg donor.

Susan said: “It feels fantastic being a parent. We couldn’t have asked for more.”

Egg donation was the last chance the couple had of having a baby after Susan suffered from an ectopic pregnancy and several heart-breaking miscarriages.

Susan said: “I had mixed emotions when they first suggested egg donation but we wanted to have a family.”

http://www.granthamjournal.co.uk/community/announcements/births_2_1797/the_gift_of_life_is_the_greatest_gift_of_all_1_2207831

The story of Melanie, Michael and the three women who helped to complete their beautiful family, a brother and sister delivered five days apart by two gestational carriers. Told in the mother’s own words, their story takes us into through the complex range of emotions, sorrows and joys surrounding infertility, egg donation and surrogacy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/magazine/02babymaking-t.html

Birth certificates are a tricky issue in the process of surrogacy. When a surrogate gives birth, can an intended parent’s name be put directly on a child’s birth certificate or must the parent legally adopt the child?