The eugenicist sympathies of IVF pioneer Robert Edwards
The 2010 Nobel Prize in medicine for British IVF pioneer Robert Edwards was one of the Nobel committee’s most popular decisions. Right up until he...
More Australians making use of international surrogacy services
The number of Australians using commercial surrogacy in India has grown dramatically over the past five years. In an interview this week the founder of...
Grave concern about the safety of new IVF procedure
A paper published this week in the journal Science questioned the safety an IVF procedure designed to prevent mitochondrial diseases in children. A paper published...
British prosecutor declines to lay charges for sex-selective abortions
England's Crown Prosecution Service has decided not to bring to trial doctors who agreed to do illegal sex-selective abortions. Telegraph reporters in a sting operation...
Legal complications of posthumous reproduction
Thanks to frozen sperm and frozen embryos, it is possible for a man to have offspring after death, even many years after his death. This...
Feminist launches attack on the Pill
Sweetening the Pill: or How We Got Hooked on Hormonal Birth Control, by English feminist writer Holly Grigg-Spall, is a passionate attack on hormonal contraceptives...
US abortion clinics closing at an ‘incredibly dramatic’ rate
With the introduction of radical new abortion restrictions in the US, abortion clinics have been closing at a record rate. With the introduction of radical...
Australian political leader criticizes US ‘politicization’ of abortion
The man tipped to be Australia’s next Prime Minister has criticized the US for making abortion a political issue. The man tipped to be Australia’s...
Americans split on abortion, but stem cell research not an issue
Most Americans see abortion as a moral issue, but few are troubled by human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research Most Americans see abortion as a...
One-third of women conceive naturally after IVF
Couple has naturally-conceived twins soon after their IVF twins. British couple Stuart and Julie Dalgetty were shocked to discover that Julie was having twins at...
UK law blurs in posthumous sperm retrieval case
In the UK earlier this month a widow in her early 40s, referred to as Ms H, obtained a court order to get surgeons to...
An early progenitor of IVF?
“The strange tale of how 500 women were helped to conceive after the first world war”. The Spectator (UK) is describing it as “The strange...