IVF: a great investment opportunity
IVF is Big Business. Not as big as Big Tech or Big Pharma, perhaps, but Big. A bidding war for an Australian stock-exchange listed company...
Spain’s High Court rejects commercial surrogacy as ‘exploitation’
Spain’s High Court has ruled that commercial surrogacy constitutes "unacceptable exploitation" of both the child and the biological mother, according to El Pais. The case...
Another suffering surrogacy hub: Russia
It is well known that the surrogacy industry in Ukraine is another victim of Russia’s invasion. Surrogate mothers are in danger; parents are unable to...
Landmark fertility fraud case settled in Vermont for US$5.25 million
In a landmark case of fertility fraud, a jury has awarded a woman in Vermont US$5.25 million dollars in damages because her family doctor used...
Abortion after mix-up at New York IVF clinic
A Massachusetts couple has aborted a baby at 6 months and is suing their IVF clinic after discovering that the baby was not related to...
Lesbian couple in New York aghast at birth of unwanted son
A lesbian couple in New York have opened up about the trauma they felt when their IVF baby turned out to be a boy, instead...
Three-parent embryo law passed in Australia
A bill authorising three-parent embryos sailed through the upper house of the Australian Parliament in late March after a fierce debate. “Maeve’s Law”, named after...
West Virginia bans Down syndrome abortions
The US state of West Virginia has banned abortion of foetuses with Down syndrome and other disabilities. . The “Unborn Child with Down Syndrome Protection...
US scientists claim that they can scan the whole genome of an IVF embryo
A California company claims that it can read nearly the entire genome of an early embryo after extracting a single cell. In an article in...
When fertility management becomes big business
It’s a commonplace of science journalism that ethics cannot keep pace with technology. As far as assisted reproduction goes, ethics cannot keep pace with business....
Abortion: no clear road ahead globally
The right to abortion is taken for granted in many countries but is bitterly contested in others. In fact, not just in the United States,...
War creeps closer to Kyiv’s surrogacy industry
Surrogacy became much more complicated on February 24 in Ukraine. With the Russian invasion, it was evident that Kyiv would become a war zone. But...