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
Joanne Ramos, author of ‘The Farm’ Surrogacy exploitation has made it onto the best-seller list. The Farm, a debut novel by investment banker Joanne Ramos,...
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...