3 sperm donors from same family in Quebec have sired 600 children
Three men in Quebec from the same family have fathered more than 600 children by offering free sperm on the internet. A documentary by Noovo Info, a Quebec news outlet...
American IVF clinics are happily offering sex selection
The United States is one of the few countries where IVF sex selection is legal – and it is a US$500 million market, according to a...
European Parliament describes surrogacy as a form of human trafficking
The European Parliament has described “the exploitation of surrogacy” as a form of human trafficking in a legislative resolution on April 23 in its Human...
‘Forced surrogacy’ reported in the UK
A British charity working with victims of modern slavery has reported that it had received three reports of “forced surrogacy” for the first time. Unseen said that calls...
Shady American company advertises kit for semen theft
A Texas company marketing its “at home insemination kit” on social media is encouraging women to use the semen from a partner’s used condom to...
Million dollar surrogacy baby
I cringe with shame as I write this, but before I read her interview in People magazine, I had never heard of Adrienne Bailon-Houghton. There, I’ve...
Commercial surrogacy hammered in Rome
Momentum in growing in Europe for a global ban on surrogacy. Italy’s Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni has blasted surrogacy as an “inhuman practice”. Addressing a...
Gaza’s IVF embryos have been destroyed by Israeli bombs
One of the many casualties of the war in Gaza has been the embryos and gametes stored at the Al-Basma IVF Centre.An Israeli shell hit the...
Trump plays it safe on abortion
Former president Donald Trump has finally unveiled his policy on abortion, which promises to be an incendiary issue in the 2024 election campaign. In a...
Vatican reaffirms critique of surrogacy and transgenderism in new document
Earlier this week the Vatican published a 16,000-word document reaffirming Catholic condemnations of a wide range of moral issues, from war to surrogacy and human...
What’s all the fuss about genetic parenthood?
Some bioethicists question the importance of a genetic relationship between parents and children. What matters, they argue is a supportive family environment, not genes. In...
UK lesbian couple swap embryos and carry each other’s child
Another dispatch from the Reproductive Revolution. A lesbian couple in the United Kingdom have successfully given birth to two boys through simultaneous reciprocal IVF. Both of...