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“The fact you’re adopting your own blood, it’s just a massive waste of resources that could have been better allocated to people that need it,” Craig Catley says of the surrogacy process in New Zealand. The pair made an arrangement to create, and co-parent the child with a lesbian couple. But after three attempts, they gave up. The women moved to Australia. About a year later, Cameron and David saw an online post about a girl’s death; she looked familiar to David, who was the sperm donor in what he thought were failed attempts at conception. The women admitted they had become pregnant, but wanted to keep the child for themselves.
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NZ surrogacy laws: Dad pens letter to Jacinda Ardern from isolation hotel after two-day US trip to deliver sperm
8 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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New Zealand s stringent assisted fertility laws mean many Kiwis are travelling abroad, spending endless cash, time and energy in their quest to complete their family. As one would-be new dad sat solo in a managed isolation hotel for two weeks after a two-day trip to the US to deliver his sperm for a surrogate, he penned a letter to Jacinda Ardern, writes Katie Harris.
Most of the country was in lockdown, tucked away from the virus ravaging the world outside Aotearoa, but Emily was fighting for her life, and grieving the loss of her unborn child.