Singapore should beware of the pitfalls of subsidizing private IVF treatment
Singapore faces a demographic milestone as its total fertility rate (TFR) for 2023 has for the first time dropped below one to 0.97 births per woman,...
Singapore should ban reproductive applications of synthetic human embryos
In recent years, Singapore has invested heavily in developing its biomedical industry. Of particular interest for policymakers are new assisted reproductive technology (ART) platforms and...
Singapore will need to confront ethical and moral dilemmas with artificial womb technology
We are facing a brave new world with artificial womb technology (AWT). This refers to bioengineered systems for the gestation of human offspring outside the...
Singapore should anticipate legal challenges over lesbian parenthood in reciprocal IVF
In a recent landmark court case in Hong Kong, a judge sided with a lesbian couple who wanted both women to have parental status over...
Singapore bans elective sperm freezing to protect consumer rights
In a recent amendment of regulations on assisted reproduction services, the Singapore Ministry of Health explicitly banned elective sperm freezing without a medical indication. This...
Singapore must prevent abuses in donation of unused surplus frozen eggs
A recent Channel News Asia article, “Egg donation in Singapore: What couples with complex infertility need to know if they want to have a baby”,...
Singaporean women should think twice before freezing their eggs
The Singapore government recently announced that the age limit for egg freezing would be extended from 35 to 37 years of age. An article in...
Risky and unnecessary embryo genetic testing (PGT-A) in Malaysia is driven by culture
Currently in Malaysia, many fertility clinics strongly encourage and even push their patients to do highly expensive preimplantation genetic testing of their IVF embryos, technically...
Permitting IVF polygenic testing is a slippery slope to genome editing in hyper-competitive Asian societies like Singapore
The Asia-Pacific region has seen rapid economic growth over the past few decades, fueled in large part by hyper-competitive social norms and Confucian values of...
Is Singapore ready for mass production of eggs and sperm from stem cells?
Scientists have generated artificial lab-grown sperm and eggs from rats and mice, which have gone on to successfully produced healthy offspring, a procedure known as...
Singapore faces legal and ethical challenges with sperm and egg donation
In recent year, Singapore has seen increasing utilization of IVF and other new assisted reproductive technologies, similar to the trend in many developed countries worldwide....
Why corporate sponsorship of egg freezing may worsen workplace discrimination against women — a view from Singapore
In recent years, there has been much news media hype on corporate sponsorship of social egg freezing by tech companies such as Apple, Facebook and...