Planned Parenthood in media crisis
Revelations about its foetal tissue sales have opened it to attacks from politicians. Much to its chagrin, Planned Parenthood is still in the headlines of...
Legal test for new surrogacy law in Thailand
A gay couple are fighting for the right to take their newborn out of Thailand. A gay couple who commissioned a Thai surrogate mother to...
Swiss court refuses to recognise surrogacy
Women and children are not commodities. Switzerland’s highest court has refused to recognise surrogacy. The Federal Court, which sits in Lausanne, was reviewing a case...
Planned Parenthood under fire over use of aborted tissue
Undercover journalists make sensational allegations The use of foetal tissue in biomedical research has become an incendiary political issue in the United States. Four videos...
Hers to choose
A woman who chose both IVF and abortion speaks out. The availability of both IVF and abortion creates some counterintuitive situations. The latest issue of...
IVF woes #2: older women
Yet another study has confirmed that IVF is rarely successful for women in their early 40s. A new study of declining IVF success rates has...
IVF woes #1: Australia
Couples are usually unaware of the low IVF success rates in Australian clinics. As couples enter pristine Australian IVF clinics with their smiling staff and...
Sperm from ovaries
Japanese researchers have discovered a way to influence the sexual fate of germ cells in medaka (rice fish). This one’s a little technical, but may...
Nepalese surrogacy unearthed
The devastating earthquake in Nepal last April unearthed the ongoing exploitation of young Indian migrants by surrogacy agents in Kathmandu. The devastating earthquake in Nepal...
Surrogacy law a child of our times
A British lawyer has slammed Britain’s “inhumane surrogacy laws A British lawyer has slammed Britain’s “inhumane surrogacy laws”, following a decision in the High Court...
What the world needs is young dads
An article in the Journal of Medical Ethics questions the ethics of older fatherhood A couple of years ago, PETA, the radical animal welfare organization,...
British mum tells of perils of surrogacy
Wendy Reid wanted to bring happiness to another couple. But everything went wrong. Another dispatch from New Frontiers of Reproduction, this time from Britain. This...