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Two lawmakers are pushing legislation that would require insurance companies to cover in vitro fertility treatments for all New Yorkers while expanding access to other procedures. Assemblywoman Aravella Simotas, D-Astoria, and Sen. Diane Savino, D-Staten Island, stood with families in the Capitol on Wednesday to call on their fellow lawmakers […]
For nearly 440,000 infertile New Yorkers and same-sex couples, gestational surrogacy is the only option for starting or growing a family. However, compensating a surrogate is illegal in New York, and there are no established legal grounds for the intended parents to have custody of their child at birth. A […]