May doctors refuse IVF to LGBT individuals?
Is it only Christians who take refuge in conscientious objection? Rows over conscientious objection, at least in the Anglosphere, have revolved around reproductive rights and...
Malta debates IVF
Malta is considering liberalising its restrictive IVF laws. The predominantly Catholic country of Malta is debating legislation that would liberalise its restrictive IVF laws and...
Child removed from Britain’s oldest IVF parents
Social services found them unfit Britain’s oldest IVF parents have had their child removed by a government agency after they failed to meet minimum care...
German man forced to support IVF son created without his consent
Five years ago, a German couple, Karl and Inge, signed an agreement granting permission to an IVF clinic to create embryos with their frozen sperm...
Scientists build synthetic embryos
Scientists in the Netherlands have successfully created synthetic embryo-like structuresScientists from the universities in the Netherlands have successfully created synthetic embryo-like structures from mouse stem...
Trump Administration pushes back against reproductive rights as human rights
What do they really mean, asks State Department official Ambassador Michael Kozak at release of US government's human rights report More pushback from the Trump...
In post-one-child-policy China posthumous conception is a matter of desperation
Grandparents sue to perpetuate bloodline An underground market in surrogacy is booming in China after the Communist Party reversed the decades-old one-child policy. Nothing illustrates...
The contradictions of commercial surrogacy
Why are the mothers left holding the baby if the parents walk? Commercial surrogacy contains inherent contradictions about the status of the mother, according to...
Are crisis pregnancy centres unethical?
A recent article in the AMA Journal of Ethics says "yes". A recent article in the American Medical Association Journal of Ethics has sparked debate...
Debate intensifies over Down syndrome abortions
Political commentators have clashed in the US over down syndrome abortions. Political commentators in the US have clashed over new state legislation that seeks to...
What does it mean to be a genetic parent?
Bioethicists are asking, "what counts as genetic parenthood?". In a world where assisted reproduction is becoming increasingly common, bioethicists are beginning to ask the question:...
Should lesbian couples have access to mitochondrial replacement therapy?
It would allow their child to have two genetic mothers “Three parent babies!!!!” was a shock-horror headline across the world when the UK was debating...