Heroic News: “'We have a right to know our parents'” plus 6 more

• 'We have a right to know our parents'
• Let’s chill: New York’s egg freezing party
• College poster campaign takes 'hook-up' culture to task
• In rare move, Pope Francis to publicly celebrate 20 marriages
• Concerns, confusion swirl over LGBT group in St. Patrick's parade
• The ethics of transgender fertility
• I’m 28 with 4 Kids — and Guess What, Society? I’m Not a Failure.

'We have a right to know our parents' There are calls for a change in birth certificate regulations after a woman conceived by sperm donation had her adopted father erased as parent.

Let’s chill: New York’s egg freezing party Commercialisation of IVF is crossing new frontiers in New York with “egg freezing parties” for career women who want to keep their options open. A company called EggBanxx will retrieve and store eggs – for about US$7,000 to $8000 per cycle. The first year of freezing is free. Here’s the pitch:

College poster campaign takes 'hook-up' culture to task A poster campaign distributed at 25 colleges and universities in the U.S. and Mexico calls students to question the predominance of 'hook-ups' and assures students there are healthy alternatives to the culture often promoted by university orientations.

In rare move, Pope Francis to publicly celebrate 20 marriages The Vatican has released the schedule of Pope Francis' main liturgical celebrations for the month of September, during which he will publicly perform the marriage of 20 couples.

Concerns, confusion swirl over LGBT group in St. Patrick's parade A spokesman for the New York City St. Patrick’s Day Parade said the inclusion of an LGBT activist group in the traditionally Catholic parade was a “gesture of goodwill,” though concerns have been raised that some outside groups aim to remove the event’s Catholic character.

The ethics of transgender fertility A disturbing trend in fertility science may see gay couples using IVF techniques to harvest eggs from one woman for implantation in a surrogate's uterus, to be fertilized using sperm from a male donor.

I’m 28 with 4 Kids — and Guess What, Society? I’m Not a Failure. "About halfway through my last pregnancy, when I still had some semblance of energy left and didn’t resemble a giant hippopotamus, I bounded into the gym for an aerobics class with my younger sister."