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Yahoo
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Nabila Razali finally shows off Baby M to the world
9 Jun - After covering her son's face in photos for the past few months, Nabila Razali finally showed off baby M to the world on Eid Al-Adha. On 8 June, the singer posted several photos of her son on Instagram, and posted, "Praise be to God, this year, I had the chance to celebrate Eid in Kelantan... and Baby M is already five months old and it is now the right time for me to introduce baby Nik Muhammad bin Nik Iruwan." "Thank you to everybody who always sendi Baby M well-wishes. May all the best things come your way," she added. Many took to the comments to express their adoration for Baby M, including stars like Hawa Rizwana, Ara Johari and Syifa Melvin, with the former writing, "Handsome baby boy. Masha-Allah!" Nabila, who tied the knot with Nik Iruwan in 2023, gave birth to their first son in December 2024. Nabila also held a special Aqiqah ceremony in Kota Bharu, and previously invited all fans to attend the event held at Franky Corner. View this post on Instagram A post shared by NABILA RAZALI (@ (Photo Source: Nabila IG)
New Straits Times
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- New Straits Times
#SHOWBIZ: Nabila Razali reveals baby's face, name after five months
KUALA LUMPUR: Singer and actress Nabila Razali has finally revealed the face and name of her first child, now five months old. Nabila, whose full name is Nur Nabila Mohd Razali, 33, took to Instagram to ask for well wishes for her son, Nik Muhammad. "Baby M is now five months old and I think it's time to introduce my son, Nik Muhammad Nik Iruwan," she posted. "Thank you all for always praying for Baby M; I hope everything is wonderful for you." Nabila also invited the public to Baby M's aqiqah ceremony in Kota Bharu, Kelantan, today. "Happy Eid al-Adha to everyone. May our sacrifices and acts of worship be a blessing in this world and the hereafter," she wrote. "Praise be to God, this year I had the opportunity to celebrate Raya in Kelantan. To everyone, see you soon at Baby M's aqiqah ceremony, okay. "Everyone who attends, don't forget to follow the SOP; we'd love for you to come eat and take pictures, okay." Nabila married entrepreneur Nik Iruwan Nik Izani on Nov 18 2023. They welcomed their son, affectionately nicknamed Baby M, on Dec 23 last year.
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Nabila Razali welcomes fans to join her son's aqiqah ceremony
5 Jun - Nabila Razali is welcoming everybody to feast with her, as she and husband Nik Iruwan will be holding an aqiqah ceremony for their first born, Baby M. Sharing the news on social media with a video, Nabila said that the event will be held in Nik's hometown in Kota Bharu, Kelantan on 7 June, in conjunction with the Eid Al-Adha. "We didn't get to return to Kelantan on Eid Al-Fitr, so now we will go back. I want to invite all of you to Baby M's aqiqah on 7 June. The event will be held at the Franky Corner in Kota Bharu from 3pm to 5pm. "The whole family can't wait to see you in Kelantan, so please come!" she enthused. Nabila, who tied the knot with the entrepreneur in 2023, gave birth to their first son in December 2024. An aqiqah is an Islamic tradition, whereby parents of a newborn would sacrifice livestock and divide the meat between friends and relatives, as well as to community members in need to celebrate the birth and express their gratitude to Allah for the blessing. (Photo Source: Nabila IG)
Yahoo
31-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Tuesday will mark the end of criminalized surrogacy in Michigan
Starting Tuesday it will no longer be a crime to enter into a surrogacy contract in Michigan. The Michigan Family Protection Act will go into effect April 1, officially repealing a ban that made Michigan the only state in the nation to criminalize surrogacy contracts, with supporters of the legislation saying it also provides long overdue legal safeguards for families formed through assisted reproduction. Among them is Ginanne Brownell, the communications and research director for the Michigan Fertility Alliance, which advocated for the nine-bill package that also strengthens the rights of children born through surrogacy in arenas such as inheritance and access to their own birth certificates. 'I think it's really important that we change the narrative around surrogacy,' Brownell told the Michigan Advance. 'I think the problem is that for such a long time we've talked about these misconceptions of who surrogates are in the U.S.' Brownell, who has unexplained infertility, said when she decided to utilize surrogacy, she was surprised to find that there were no agencies willing to work with her in Michigan because of the 1988 Surrogate Parenting Act, which prohibited compensated surrogate parentage contracts. After finding a surrogate in Illinois who delivered her twins in 2018, Brownell started researching the history Michigan has played in surrogacy. 'Michigan was pivotal to surrogacy across the globe for many, many reasons. The first compensated surrogacy contract in the world was signed in Dearborn in 1976. Noel Keane was the lawyer in that,' Brownell said. In 1986, she said Keane helped arrange a contract for a New Jersey couple whose embryos were implanted in a surrogate, resulting in the world's first child born through a gestational surrogate in Ypsilanti. However, that same year a child born through a surrogacy contract arranged by Keane made international headlines when the surrogate mother refused to honor the contract and fled to Florida with the child, sparking a legal battle that spotlighted the ethical implications of surrogacy. The so-called Baby M case resulted in the 1988 ban on compensated surrogacy in Michigan. 'And that's where the law stayed for almost 40 years,' Brownell said, adding that she was introduced to Stephanie Jones, the founder of the Michigan Fertility Alliance while she was working on her book, 'Elusive Mommyhood: An Investigative Reporter's Personal Journey into IVF and Surrogacy'. 'She had her daughter born through surrogacy as well. We both realized we were really passionate about this, and so we both kind of decided, 'Hey, let's try and change the law', Brownell said. After her twins were born in 2018, Brownell, who works in London while maintaining her residency in Michigan, told the Advance she had an opportunity to interview Gretchen Whitmer as she campaigned for governor. 'Because my kids had just been born, I was back in Michigan for several months waiting for their passports to be issued,' Brownell said. 'And so I was explaining this to her and she said, 'Why is that? That's so weird,'and so we both spoke about it briefly and she said, 'Well, that's something that should be changed' and I was like, 'Yeah, it should be.'' Brownell said she reflected on that conversation when Whitmer signed the legislation into law, which she was present for. 'It felt like it came full circle that we'd had this conversation about changing the law and here we were in the same room where she signed it into law and I had been a part of that,' Brownell said. The process to get the law changed included testimony from parents across Michigan who related their stories of infertility and frustration at the barriers Michigan had enacted to starting their families. Among those testifying was state Rep. Samantha Steckloff (D-Farmington Hills), sponsor of the main bill in the package, who said that as a breast cancer survivor, she was unable to conceive naturally due to the chemotherapy treatments she underwent. 'But I was lucky I was able to put off chemo by one month in order to go through IVF [in vitro fertilization] and egg harvesting so that one day I might be able to have a family of my own,' Steckloff said during testimony last year. Steckloff's bill, HB 5207, established the Assisted Reproduction and Surrogacy Parentage Act, which sets standards for creating a surrogacy contract including that a surrogate be 21 or older, have previously given birth to a child, completed a medical and mental health consultation and have independent legal representation of their choice, all paid for by the intended parents. Although Whitmer signed the Michigan Family Protection Act into law in April 2024, Republicans in the Legislature actively opposed the measure and refused to give it immediate effect, making it unable to officially begin until 90 days after December 31, when the 102nd Legislature adjourned its session, which will be April 1. That opposition, supported by the Michigan Catholic Conference and Right to Life of Michigan, was based on concerns that legalized surrogacy contracts can exploit vulnerable women. Among them was state Sen. Thomas Albert (R-Lowell), who urged his colleagues to vote no on the legislation that he contended puts 'vulnerable women at risk of exploitation' and 'fundamentally redefines family.' Meanwhile, Brownell says the Michigan Fertility Alliance is now launching a new grassroots coalition called State Strong, which will be advocating for surrogacy and fertility access nationwide. 'In a lot of these states they might just have one or two advocates that, for example, they're seeing that there's like really bad IVF legislation in say Nebraska. So they would kind of reach out to us and say, what should we do with the messaging on this? Do you have any legislation that's happened that you can share with us? Because a lot of these people are just kind of like us, volunteers, people who have never really worked on legislation advocacy before. And so State Strong is continuing that fight on a national level now as well,' Brownell said. While those issues will also get more attention later this month during National Infertility Awareness Week from April 20-26, Brownell says when it comes to the children who are created through surrogacy, the details of how they came to be are not nearly as important as their very existence. 'We need to start asking them how they feel about it. And I think that you have hundreds of thousands of children who are born through surrogacy, the majority of whom are still under the age of 18, but as they start coming of age, they can tell their stories,' Brownell said, pointing to a University of Cambridge 20-year longitudinal study of third-party assisted reproduction which found positive family relationships and child adjustment from childhood to adult life. 'It found that children born through surrogacy, how did they feel about it? They didn't care. It was just like 'Whatever. Why do I care how I was born?'' SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX
