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The cost of surrogacy and insurance denials push gay couples to crowdfund children

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Tyler Le/Insider Insider spoke to several same-sex couples using GoFundMe to afford surrogacy. Heteronormative definitions of infertility mean that gay couples are often excluded from undercover IVF. LGBTQ advocates are now pushing for a more inclusive definition to add to social infertility. Seven months ago, Noah and Tyler Tyner-Dernulc started a GoFundMe. So far, she\’s … Read more

My mother was killed in the Sandy Hook school shooting. Now I have to crowdfund my health care.

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A decade after my mother, Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung, was killed trying to protect elementary school students in the Sandy Hook School mass shooting, I\’m in the midst of another crisis caused by bad policy: crowdfunding for pay for my cancer treatment. In late March, I was diagnosed with stage II lymphoma, a primary orbital tumor, … Read more