France incorporates abortion into its constitution
France has become the first country in the world to guarantee a right to abortion in its constitution. Lawmakers in a joint sitting of the...
Thailand to reopen international surrogacy market
Thailand is planning to reverse course and legalise surrogacy for foreigners, nine years after it banned it. "If the bill passes, it will be the first...
US politicians wary of endorsing IVF decision by Alabama court
Politicians are pushing back against the Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling that frozen IVF embryos are “extrauterine children”. Doctors say that this will make IVF almost...
Drama about surrogacy popular in Israel
Israelis have a lot of drama on their plate at the moment after October 7 – war in Gaza, possible war with Hamas, international turmoil...
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,...
A ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court sends shivers up the spine of America’s IVF industry
A stunning decision by the Alabama Supreme Court has sent shivers throughout the US IVF industry. It ruled last week that frozen embryos must be...
The global demographic winter is good news for IVF clinics
It’s an ill wind that blows nobody good. Falling fertility rates around the world are worrying policy experts. The population of some countries will halve...
Telemedicine for abortion pills is healthy and safe, says study
Supporters of telemedicine for medication abortions have been heartened by a study published in the leading journal Nature Medicine this week. The researchers, from the University of...
Inadvertent incest after IVF is real
Historic news flash in the chronicles of the Reproductive Revolution! A CNN investigation of the aftermath of “fertility fraud” – doctors impregnating their patients with their own...
Is one of the most common methods of IVF and expensive and dangerous waste of time?
One of the most common methods of IVF for infertile couples around the globe may be an expensive and invasive waste of time and may...
Ukraine legalizes post-mortem sperm donation
Ukraine’s parliament has approved a law which permits the frozen sperm of soldiers to be used if they are killed in action. An earlier law...
Leading French IVF specialist alarmed at fertility developments
One of France’s leading IVF experts appears to be having a change of heart about his specialty. René Frydman has no ethical objections to IVF,...