Court will hear IVF benefits
The US Supreme Court will hear a case about whether children conceived through IVF after the death of a parent are eligible for Social Security...
IVF child to have grandma, but no pa and no ma
Marissa Evans, broken-hearted, watched her 21-year-old son die in hospital. When doctors told her it was time to turn off his life support, the 44-year-old...
Are Indian doctors turning girls into boys for parents who wanted a son?
If you are looking for lurid consequences of India’s worsening gender ratio, look no longer. Millions of girls are missing, aborted because of a deeply...
France finally updates its bioethics
France will soon have a new bioethics law. After months of debate, by a vote of 170 to 157, the Senate approved a bill which...
Should men be allowed to father children from the grave?
Fertility treatment is usually marketed as assistance for an infertile partner. But a dead partner? Fertility from the grave may seem ghoulish, but it is...
Woman had 2 children after secretly taking ex-husband’s frozen sperm
A father was forced to pay his ex-wife £100,000 so that she can raise two children she conceived via IVF without his consent after secretly...
surrogate motherhood and the Daily Mail
Hi there, Drizzle or no drizzle, there are times when I wish that I lived in London – when I get my hands on a...
IVF mix-up mum to have twins with a surrogate
Another adventure in the Wild West of assisted reproduction. Carolyn and Sean Savage, of Ohio, had two boys conceived naturally and an IVF daughter. But...
“What on earth have I done?” asks 58-year-old mother of IVF twins
Another chapter in the reproductive revolution from the UK: 58-year-old Carole Hobson, a single woman, is now the mother of twins. Not exactly her twins....
UK gears up for three-parent embryos
There’s still life in the UK’s fertility watchdog, even if the present government plans to scrap it. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has...
72 not out, and feeling broody
Romanian woman considers a second child A Romanian woman who was pipped as the world’s oldest mother by a 70-year-old Indian woman is considering giving...
Boy born from embryo frozen 20 years ago
Oldest-ever birth from frozen embryo An American woman has given birth to a boy who was created in an IVF clinic 20 years ago. This...