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,...
Key papers which opposed abortion pill retracted
Academia is not all tea and crumpets in the senior common room. Sometimes it's a blood sport, with victors and victims, winners and losers. Raising...
British sperm is being exported overseas
Some women in the UK have been shocked to learn that their favourite donor’s sperm is being exported overseas. According to an article in BioNews,...
What is the real story of rape pregnancies after Dobbs?
Sometimes it seems that the precision of statistics is inversely proportion to their reliability. A widely reported research letter to the journal JAMA Internal Medicine...
Pick the odd one out: measles, mumps, Covid, rubella, pregnancy, malaria
Is pregnancy a disease? With some bioethicists arguing that the continuance of the human species is not worth the candle or that the foetus is...
British MP lashes out at surrogacy
A Conservative MP in the British Parliament has called for a ban on surrogacy. Miriam Cates, 41, told “The House”, a magazine for MPs, that...
Antisemitism hits sperm donation
Will the rise in global antisemitism affect sperm donation? An Australian man was planning to be a sperm donor for a lesbian couple. However, they...