In-vitro Fertilization

“You have policymakers who think a family consists of a man and a woman and two and a half children,” one would-be father said. “But that’s not what my family will look like.”

Queer couples had to pay for fertility treatment on their own for up to a year before the insurance giant would cover it. Non-same-sex couples only had to say they were having sex.

There are various family-building options available now that you should know about.

Hawaii’s LGBT community are lobbying for equal access to the financial help married, heterosexual couples enjoy under state law.

The new procedures are intended to fix problems linked to mitochondria, the energy-producing structures outside a cell’s nucleus.

Female same-sex couples in Maryland would have the same health care benefits for artificial insemination as heterosexual couples, under a bill passed by the state Senate.

PARIS — France’s highest court has ruled that married lesbian couples are allowed to adopt their spouse’s child born through in vitro fertilization or other medically assisted reproduction. The Cour de Cassation’s ruling is a consequence of the legalization of same-sex marriage in France last year.

BOSTON — Fertility clinics have put a new twist on how to make babies: A “two-mom” approach that lets female same-sex couples share the biological role. One woman’s eggs are mixed in a lab dish with donor sperm, then implanted in the other woman, who carries the pregnancy.

BRASILIA, Brazil — Brazil is guaranteeing homosexual couples’ right to access assisted fertilization.