RFK Jr’s vice-presidential pick is a vehement critic of IVF
IVF could be a major issue in the 2024 US Presidential campaign. So it’s interesting that the main independent candidate, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, has...
World IVF market is already US$25 billion
According to Vision Research Reports, the size of the global IVF market was estimated at US$25.3 billion in 2023. By 2023 it will be US$43.6 billion. The market...
Czech doctors abort wrong baby
An expectant mother lost her baby after a horrifying mistake in a hospital in the Czech Republic. A foreign woman who was four months pregnant...
A story of secret surrogacy in China
This story comes from the intersection of China’s one-child policy, voluntary childlessness, surrogacy, and traditional norms of filial piety. As reported in the South China Morning...
Some Americans are disposing of their costly frozen embryos
The cost of storing frozen embryos is steadily rising in the United States, prompting some people to have them destroyed. The Washington Post interviewed several people in...
In Scotland 4 out of 10 women choose abortion because they can’t afford childcare
Four in 10 women in Scotland who have terminated a pregnancy say that the cost of childcare was the primary motivation for their decision. Research...
Is the Biden campaign using abortion as its trump card?
Joe Biden is making abortion rights a central plank in his re-election campaign. Earlier this week he signed a new executive order about reproductive health...
After Supreme Court decision, Alabama protects IVF – but has it gone too far?
Alabama’s legislature and governor moved quickly to protect IVF after its Supreme Court startled the nation by ruling that embryos were “extrauterine children”. This left...
The abortion pill controversy mixes science, law and politics in a toxic brew
Medication abortions accounted for 63% of all abortions in the United States in 2023, according to a report from the Guttmacher Institute. In 2020, only...
European Parliament deputies call for abortion to be made a ‘fundamental right’
France’s decision to include a right to abortion in its constitution has revived moves to include it in European Union’s Charter of Fundamental Rights. “Deciding about one’s...
Scientists move step closer to making IVF eggs from skin cells
Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have developed a promising technique for creating artificial eggs. In the journal Science Advances they described the process: they transferred the...
Licence of London fertility clinic suspended after losing embryos
After a decision by the Supreme Court of Alabama in a case about the destruction of embryos sent ripples around the world, errors in IVF...