i am looking at the front page of the NYTimes print edition. There is this story and a large pic of a surrogate mom in bed. She is reading a magazine and has sheets over here (rather large women). Next to her is a man laying on his side with his clothes on but staring admiredly at her as she continues to read.
The caption reads: Dawn Buras, a surrogate, was watched over by Anthony Ramos, a prospective father, after undergoing an embryonic transfer in March.
It is just the oddest pic i have ever seen.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/27/national/27surrogate.html?May 27, 2005
Surrogate Mothers' New Niche: Bearing Babies for Gay Couples
By GINIA BELLAFANTE
On a spring morning not long ago, Lura Stiller sat in her stocking feet in a sunny cottage in Cambridge, Mass., helping Cary Friedman and his partner, Rick Wellisch, calm their daughter, a 3-month-old in a pink T-shirt.
Ms. Stiller, 34, a homemaker from the Dallas suburbs, likes to say that the number of gay people in her acquaintance before she met Dr. Friedman, a psychiatrist, and Dr. Wellisch, an internist, amounted to zero. "Everything I knew about gay people I knew from TV, which meant that everything I knew about gay people I learned from 'Will and Grace' and 'The L Word,' " she said.
In December, Ms. Stiller gave birth to the baby, named Samantha, for Dr. Friedman and Dr. Wellisch, conceived with a donor egg and the sperm from one of the partners. (They chose not to know which.) In her decision to work with them Ms. Stiller is part of a small but growing movement of surrogate mothers choosing gay couples over traditional families.
As legislatures debate giving gay couples the right to marry - 14 states have amended their constitutions to prevent it - hundreds of couples are finding ways to create families with or without marriage through surrogates like Ms. Stiller, who are willing to help them have children genetically linked to them and to bypass the often difficult legal challenges gay men face in adoption.......