- Join OPTS today! "An OPTS membership will give you the most
comprehensive surrogacy directory available, plus state law information
and connection to other members both on and off the web! Membership is
$150 for non-professionals and $275 for professional members. You'll
love what you get back!
- Did you know that OPTS maintains the most comprehensive directory
of surrogacy agencies, lawyers, psychologists and clinics? We also
have a collection of useful articles on surrogacyand egg donation as
well as other topics. A detailed legislative guide is also available.
For ordering information, email bzager@msn.com.
- Website sponsors/supporters needed! We welcome website
sponsors and supporters. Your ad dollars and donations to OPTS will
enable us to continue our mission of support, education and advocacy
on-line. Please email bzager@msn.com for more information.
- OPTS would like to congratulate our internet director, surrogate
mother Christina Derrow who gave birth August 31st to a beautiful son,
Nicholas Chase, for CJ and Tim! Chris is now resting at home and will be
back shortly to help OPTS.
- Editor wanted: Are you an OPTS member and writer by
profession? We're looking for a volunteer to interview members, take
their stories and work them into book form. This would be a great
contribution to "the cause." If interested in being our editor, call 847
782-0224.
- Anyone can open a surrogacy business, on-line or off. No previous
experience or licensing as a surrogacy center is required. So check out
carefully any practitioner you are thinking of working with before
signing up and ask for references. Ask also about his/her
background. Case in point: In 1992, the Illinois Department of
Professional Regulation revoked the medical license of an Urbana,
Illinois psychiatrist, Thomas Radecki, for "engaging in immoral conduct
of an unprofessional nature with a patient." The IDPR later rejected Dr.
Radecki's request for early reinstatement of his license following
complaints about his "Surrogate Parenting Institute," a rented mail box
drop in Indianapolis, IN.. Radecki's extensive ads in college papers for
young girls as egg donors and surrogates had been the focus of a CBS
News investigation in 1995. In an interview shown nationally, Radecki
stated that he was closing the postal box and getting out of the
surrogacy business. However, OPTS members and others found him back in
the surrogacy business recently with a big on-line website catering
primarily to international clients. This was reported to the I.D.P.R.
for their review.A spokesman there said that pending a new psychiatric
evaluation, his trial for reinstatement of his license may start in late
September. Those hearings will be in Chicago and open to the public.
- Your Story Wanted!
The Surrogacy
Experience...a new book starring YOU! Please share with us your
surrogacy story (maximum 1,000 words) . We are going to publish a book
called "Surrogate Parenting Stories." Please be part of this exciting
project!
To get an outline for your story please send an email
to: Stories@opts.com. A detailed
outline will be emailed to you immediately.
Thank you for
participating!
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