{"id":24576,"date":"2010-04-01T13:51:24","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T17:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=24576"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:23:07","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:23:07","slug":"newton-tab-labor-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2010\/04\/01\/newton-tab-labor-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Newton TAB tells of the &#039;labor of love&#039; by one alum for another"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Newton<\/em> (Mass.) <em>TAB<\/em> reporter Susan Danseyar describes the &#8220;labor of love&#8221; by Rachel Segall &#8217;91, who is the\u00a0 gestational carrier for the baby of classmate Erik Mercer &#8217;91 and Erik&#8217;s husband, Sandro Secci. A couple years ago, after watching a TV news story about the challenges faced by gay men who wish to have their own baby, Segall got an idea: &#8220;I called Erik and told him if he was ever interested in having a child some day, to think over my offer&#8221; of surrogacy. (Fertizilation used sperm from both Mercer and Secci, though they don&#8217;t know whose sperm got to the donor egg first.)\u00a0 Segall, who is married to James Hurley &#8217;91 and has three children of their own, said that &#8220;this is an easy thing for me to offer, especially for such wonderful friends.&#8221; Segall is due in mid-August. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wickedlocal.com\/newton\/features\/x645476740\/Newton-mother-of-three-carries-baby-girl-as-surrogate-for-gay-friend\">View story from the <em>Newton TAB<\/em>, Mar. 23, 2010.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newton (Mass.) TAB reporter Susan Danseyar describes the &#8220;labor of love&#8221; by&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7,11009],"tags":[11051],"class_list":["post-24576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-the-college","tag-bates-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93194,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24576\/revisions\/93194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}