This is probably the world’s biggest surrogacy family
February was the last time BioEdge visited Christina Ozturk and her husband Galip at their home in the Black Sea resort city of Batumi, Georgia....
Black Friday discounts on babies from Ukraine
Commodification chronicles. It’s Black Friday in Kiev! The Ukrainian clinic BioTexCom is offering 3% off!!!!! on its surrogacy and fertility packages. The discount deal runs...
‘The Golden Age of status surrogacy is here’
Now that we’re broached the topic of commodification, let’s turn to Town & Country, America’s lifestyle magazine for the seriously wealthy. One of its articles...
The fine line between science students and ghouls
Commodification files. The widow of a 95-year-old Louisiana war veteran who died of Covid-19 was shocked to discover that her husband’s body – which he...
What is the future of surrogacy in a post-Covid world?
Anyone following the debate over the legal status of surrogacy should read Sociological Debates on Gestational Surrogacy: Between Legitimation and International Abolition, an open source...
Gift vouchers for egg freezing
What better present for over-30s? Here’s a quirky angle to the Covid pandemic – gift vouchers for egg freezing. OVA, an egg freezing c ompany...
Could surrogacy contracts work?
Dutch writers are sceptical The complications involved in commercial surrogacy are leading lawyers and legislators to considering regulating what they cannot forbid. As a Dutch...
Scandal about treatment of cadavers in France’s leading medical school
A national bioethical framework is needed for body donation Since last November, Europe's largest anatomy centre at the medical school of the University of Paris-Descartes...
New York legislature in heated debate over surrogacy
Issue pits feminists against LGBT lobby Gloria Steinem / Gage Skidmore flickr A New York State bill to legalise commercial surrogacy has hit an unexpected road...
A dystopian novel about surrogacy in America
Debut novel is getting enthusiastic reviews Joanne Ramos, author of ‘The Farm’ Surrogacy exploitation has made it onto the best-seller list. The Farm, a debut...
Chinese clinics advertise for sperm donors
But donation goes against strong cultural prejudices Chinese IVF centres are offering better and bigger rewards as they are failing to recruit enough sperm donors....
Why not buy and sell embryos, ask scholars in NEJM
Why can’t embryos be bought and sold like any other commodity? Making this unsettling proposal is less surprising than where it was made – in...