Not a happy camper
We may have over-egged today’s newsletter with stories about surrogacy, but they all appeared this week with a common theme: what about the mothers? The...
Ms Surrogate Mother of 2002 passes away at 37
Can you love having children too much?Michael Meehan, Brooke Verity, Thomas Dysarz For a brief moment in 2002, 23-year-old Kentucky woman Brooke Verity Cochran was...
Remarkable insights in Norwegian study of India’s surrogate mothers
Anthropologist conducted interviews with commissioning parents and surrogate mothersNorwegian anthropologist Kristin Engh Førde has just completed a PhD on international commercial surrogacy in India, which...
Dust-up over a child’s right to know genetic origins
Do children really need to know? University of Ghent bioethicist Guido Pennings recently published an article in BioNews with the provocative title “Donor children do...
‘Consult the disabled before enhancing people’ disabled poet advises
The bittersweet feeling of seeing your disability disappearMost people think of dwarfism as a serious disability, but many of those who have it are proud...
Six decades of struggle over The Pill
In mid-1957 the US Food and Drug Administration approved the drug Enovid, later known as The Pill. In mid-1957 the US Food and Drug Administration...
Charlie Gard saga may end in days
The European Court of Human Rights is considering whether to to allow the withdrawal of treatment. The protracted legal saga surrounding 10-month-old UK infant Charlie...
Rethinking the 14 day rule
Policy analysts are calling for a “reconsideration” of the decades-old 14-day embryo experimentation rule. Policy analysts in the United States and UK are calling for...
The first year of California’s assisted suicide: over 500 prescriptions
Over 500 people have been prescribed life-ending drugs in California, says Compassion and Choices. Over 500 people have been prescribed life-ending drugs since physician assisted...