Pressure mounts for commercial surrogacy in Australia
Online survey purports to show that most support it As clinics offering cheap surrogacy overseas shut their doors to foreigners, pressure is mounting in Australia...
Another abortion battle in Texas, this time over how to dispose of tissue
A policy of cremation or burial has become a major political and ethical dispute Disposing of aborted embryos has become a major political and ethical...
Is there a last-minute hitch with 3-parent embryo trials?
Not as straightforward as scientists have painted it Just as scientists in the UK are about to begin clinical trials with three-parent embryos, a study...
Australian nurse arrested in Cambodia’s surrogacy crackdown
An Australian nurse and fertility specialist has been arrested in Cambodia. Tammy Davis-Charles being interviewed by Cambodian police An Australian nurse and fertility...
Dutch team creates 3D atlas of human embryo
Downloadable PDF show embryo in amazing detail Dutch anatomists have published an amazing 3D atlas of the human embryo. Their website offers 14 interactive three-dimensional...
Australian IVF clinics attacked by regulator over deceptive advertising
IVF advertising a "race to the bottom" targeting vulnerable people. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has delivered a blistering attack on the advertising...
Planned Parenthood prepares for defunding after Trump’s election
Cecile Richards insists that its doors will remain open One group which does view Trump Ascendant as an apocalyptic event is Planned Parenthood. During the...
Cambodia bans commercial surrogacy
Cambodia has become the latest South East Asian nation to ban commercial surrogacy. Cambodia has become the latest South East Asian nation to ban commercial surrogacy,...
Canadian reproductive rights pioneer in disgrace over IVF mix-up
Dr Norman Barwin is being sued by former clientsDr Norman Barwin after a disciplinary hearing in 2013 An Ottawa fertility specialist secretly used his...
More couples crowd-funding IVF
Desperate couples try to defray expensive treatment costs More and more couples are resorting to internet crowd-funding sites to finance their IVF treatments in the...
Does IVF actually work for women over 40?
Miriam Zoll says that the technology has not worked for 20 million women Critics of the IVF industry in the US have attacked “misleading” marketing...
Ethics ignored in ‘3-person embryo’ technique
A doctor in Kiev says that two babies are on the way after mitochondrial manipulation A fertility doctor in Ukraine is using highly controversial mitochondrial...