Free Teleseminar Explores Surrogacy Requirements,
Rights, Rewards
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
CHICAGO (July 8, 2008) -- An attorney, a psychologist,
and a past surrogate will join forces with an agency advocate for
a free teleseminar on July 31 designed to demystify gestational
surrogacy.
“Surrogacy and You: Expectations and Realities of Carrying Someone Else’s Baby”
aims to help prospective surrogates understand the requirements, rights and rewards
of the role. The panel of experts will discuss issues ranging from compensation
to legal rights to emotional readiness.
The one-hour event is sponsored by Chicago-based
Alternative Reproductive Resources (ARR); founded in 1992, it was one of the
first agencies in the country to facilitate egg donations and, later, gestational
surrogacies.
“Surrogacy and You” will be held at 1:30 p.m. (CST) July 31 via phone. For further
information, to register and obtain call-in details, visit ARR (www.arr1.com/teleseminar_0708.html)
or call 312.666.6662.
Format will be four 10-minute presentations, with the final
20 minutes opened to audience questions. Robin von Halle, president of ARR, will
moderate the panel, which includes:
Elaine Brown, a surrogate from Colorado who is in her second surrogate pregnancy
after having delivered a baby boy for a Chicago couple in 2006.
Jan Elman Stout, Psy.D., a clinical psychologist who consults with ARR’s surrogacy
and egg donor candidates as well as intended parents.
Nidhi Desai, a partner in Ballard, Desai, Bush-Joseph & Horwich, who helped
author Illinois’ progressive surrogacy law.
Mary Ellen McLaughlin, BSN, a partner in ARR, who works closely
with its surrogates and egg donors.
“There’s a tremendous amount of misinformation and confusion about surrogacy
with movies like ‘Baby Mama’ and sometimes incomplete articles in the popular
press. We believe many potential surrogates as well as intended parents would
be interested in hearing from the experts,” said von Halle.
Co-sponsoring the teleseminar with ARR is Surrogate Mothers Online
(www.surromomsonline.com),
the Web site “Become A Surrogate Mom” (www.becomeasurrogatemom.com),
and the Web site “Surrogate Mother” (www.surrogatemother.com).
Established in 1994, Chicago-based ARR was
one of the first agencies in the United States dedicated to locating
and matching egg donors (and, more recently gestational surrogates)
with intended parents from around the world. For further information,
contact von Halle at 773.327.7315, or info@arr1.com.
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