Russian surrogacy, controversial and unregulated
Nationwide there are around 100 surrogacy centres, including 40 in MoscowA Russian senator has proposed a ban on both commercial and altruistic surrogacy. Anton Belyakov,...
Assyrian pre-nups
Several of our stories this week deal with end-of-life issues. For a bit of a change, how about an historical diversion? “And when Rachel saw...
Let death be didactic
Why not return to the ancient practice of burying the dead instead of cremating them? The old Jewish cemetery, Prague / National Geographic The burning...
If you want to be a surrogate, make sure you have a lawyer
An American woman almost loses her own childAnother chapter in The Reproductive Revolution, this time (as so many other times) from California via a report...
Calls for commercial surrogacy in Australia as children get ‘stranded’
An Australian couple has discovered they will not be recognised as the parents of their children. An Australian couple living in the US has discovering...
Trump’s health department takes a pro-life turn
A new strategic plan defends life from conception to natural deathThe new strategic plan for the US Department of Health and Human Services has accomplished...
British childbirth doctors back decriminalised abortion
Now three major medical lobby groups support itThe professional body representing British obstetricians and gynaecologists has chosen to support the decriminalisation of abortion. The ruling...
5% of Japanese babies from IVF
With the birth rate so low, the government is grasping at strawsThe latest figures show that 1 in 20 Japanese babies born in 2015 began...
How far does a right to a child extend?
Another instalment in the Reproductive Revolution, this time from California and Georgia. In 2015, 51-year-old Chester Shannon Moore Jr engaged a surrogate mother in California...
Let’s make surrogacy professional
Two New Zealand academics want the government to regulate the marketSome surrogate mothers in California / Surrogate Alternatives Two New Zealand academics have proposed a...
Russian babies swapped at birth
A heart-breaking story of maternal lossZoya's daughters Lucia (L) and Ekaterina. Picture: Zoya Tuganova The theme of babies swapped at birth is probably more common...
If this is fatherhood, well, I’m a Dutchman
The 18th Century adventurer Giacomo Casanova measured his virility by the number of women he had seduced. After the reproductive revolution, his epigones benchmark theirs...