On Wednesday, February 5th, John Weltman, the founder of Circle Surrogacy, will present Surrogacy, which is well accepted in most of the American fifty states as the ultimate solution to heterosexual infertility and gay parenting. This program will address the reasons for this different approach to surrogacy in the United States versus worldwide, and suggests an ultimate solution for how to find universal acceptance for this pragmatic and nearly always successful form of parenting.

John Weltman has been a litigator with a special focus in real estate and art litigation for 35 years. He created in 1995, a surrogate parenting agency, Circle Surrogacy, the largest surrogate parenting agency in the world. In 1994 and 1995, John and his husband each had a child through surrogacy. John has spoken before the American Bar Association, and before many other organizations worldwide on the topic of surrogacy. However, this will be his first presentation on what he hopes will be both a Ph.D. dissertation and a book on the religious, moral and ethical aspects of surrogacy worldwide, and his suggested solution thereto.

OLLI starts at 1:30 p.m. sharp, at the Commodores Inn, 823 South Main Street, Rt. 100, Stowe, Vermont. Membership is $40 for the nine-lecture series, or $7 for the individual session. You are invited to join us for refreshments immediately following the presentation.

Interested in becoming a Lamoille Valley OLLI sponsor? Contact us. Information: Ann Spearing, 888-7466; or OLLI website, learn.UVM.edu/osher