Egg Donor & Surrogacy Law Blog : Surrogacy and Egg Donation Lawyer & Attorney : Theresa Erickson : Erickson Law Firm : Practicing Reproductive and Gestational Carrier Law

San Diego & Los Angeles, CA Sept 29, 2009 – “We recently had the pleasure of informing one lucky couple from Barcelona, Spain, that because they attended one of our surrogacy and egg donation seminars that they had won the Free Egg Donation Cycle,” states Egg Donation Lawyer Theresa M. Erickson.  “It is such a pleasure to be able to provide these types of informational seminars to our clients throughout the world and be able to work with such an outstanding group of California Surrogacy and Egg Donation Professionals,” states Attorney Erickson.

“We would like to also thank those California Surrogacy and Egg Donation Professionals who graciously gave of their time and resources for this worthy endeavor, states Tracy Armato, the Program Director for Conceptual Options a Center for Surrogacy and Egg Donation located in San Diego & Los Angeles, California.  “Professional companies who provided their services at no cost for this Free Egg Donation Cycle, such as La Jolla IVF, Meyers and O’Hara Law Firm and Erickson Law, P.C. are what make this industry great, and these are the organizations that we use when we build a team of professionals for all of our clients, not only in the United States, but worldwide,” states Armato.

Conceptual Options, LLC is currently helping build families throughout the United States and the world in locations such as Spain, Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Turkey, Uruguay, Norway, Ireland and the United Kingdom.

For more information on Conceptual Options and its surrogacy and egg donation center, please contact Tracy Armato at 001-858-748-4222 or for upcoming seminar attendance information, visit http://www.surrogacy-eggdonation.com.

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You bet I do.....but, just when they involve educating those who are desperate and vulnerable and need some guidance. 

In conjunction with the American Fertility Association, I will be hosting a "Dessert & Learn."  Please join us in beautiful La Jolla, California.

See Corey's blog post here:

by Corey Whelan

Have you met her?  One of the most knowledgeable and compassionate attorneys in this field; plus she has the most astonishing savvy.  A true thoroughbred, inside and out.  I’m proud that Theresa sits on The AFA’s board of directors and am grateful for the wisdom she has brought to these blog pages. 

 The AFA is big on creating soft spaces for people to learn in.  Why shouldn’t life have some sweetness, even when you are struggling to create your family?  So when Theresa came to us and said she wanted to reach out to the people of La Jolla who are interested in third party reproduction, we knew we had to find the right place for folks to get to know her, and benefit from what she has to bring to the table, especially if that table features a dessert buffet.

Enter CUPS.  CUPS is a brand new, organic bakery that specializes in?  You guessed it.  Cupcakes.  Exotic, amazing, silly, frivolous, and organic baked creations, guaranteed to shift your reality from oy to yum.   

Perfect.

Except for one tiny detail.  CUPS is so new, they are not even open yet.  But Michelle, CUPS owner and an attorney in her own right, believes so strongly in The AFA’s mission that she is lending us her gracious and magnificent estate for this season’s premier Dessert & Learn event. 

So…..please join us poolside at Rancho La Jolla.  We will be having an intimate and relaxed chat with Theresa about ovum donation, surrogacy, and everything third party repro.      

I’ll save you a bite.

For more info on our upcoming Dessert & Learn, click here.

 For info on Erickson Law, click here.

For info on CUPS Organic Bakery, click here.

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Today's Friday Legal Update involves an interesting article regarding the Octo-Mom.  Not only does is discuss my opinion, as well as the opinion of theASRM featuring Sean Tipton, but it truly highlights the need for legal representation and the proper consents that need to be in line between yourself, the donor and your physician.  I think that the story of the Octo-Mom is teaching us again courtesy of RadarOnline....how ironic!  Let me know your thoughts.

"In an exclusive video with RadarOnline.com, Nadya Suleman revealed that she never asked her sperm donor for permission to use their frozen embryos-embryos that would eventually become her octuplets. While all of the Octomom's 14 children share the same bio-dad, Nadya exclusively told RadarOnline.com on Wednesday evening that she "begged" the man to help her conceive her first six kids. When it came to the octuplets, she said, "I went behind his back and used them all. He didn't want me to. I feel so much guilt for that.

"RadarOnline.com asked experts whether Suleman's decision was ethical-or legal. Sean B. Tipton, the director of public relations for the American Society of Reproductive Medicine, explained that men typically sign away most of their rights when they donate sperm. "They almost always relinquish all control over the process," he said. "It's very important that donors understand that they're relinquishing those rights."

Suleman's most recent pregnancy clearly violated other ASRM guidelines, though. The group holds that women under 35 should not be implanted with more than two embryos at once. Nadya was 33 when she was willingly implanted with eight embryos. "We've had guidelines on embryo transfer for years, and we keep ratcheting those down," Tipton said. "Multiple births are dangerous for the mother and the babies."

So could Suleman's donor take legal action against the Octomom? "It's a really sticky situation," attorney Theresa Erickson, founder of the California Family Planning Law Firm, told RadarOnline.com. "It's unlawful for anyone to use sperm, eggs, or embryos for any purpose beyond those on a consent form." If there was no written agreement between Suleman and the donor-or if the agreement included a timetable for the use of the sperm or restricted the freezing of embryos-he could have a case.

"If she asked for more [sperm] later, and another consent form wasn't signed, it's a gray area," Erickson added. "And if she lied to him or manipulated him, that might be a problem." The Octomom has said that her donor "would lose everything" if he came forward. Because of this, Erickson says that we'll likely never know whether she violated the law "unless the medical board investigates or she sues [the doctor] for malpractice. But I doubt that, because she got the eight babies she wanted." (Photo: WENN)"

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