Court awards custody of Australian baby to four gay parents
All fine people, says JudgeAnother instalment in the Amazing Adventures of Reproductive Technology. Baby E was born in Melbourne in 2008. His mother and her...
Is posthumous conception enough to make you a parent?
No, says Social Security Agency in Utah Should a child born three years after his father’s death be eligible for survivor Social Security benefits? This...
May doctors ethically retrieve eggs from comatose women?
Intriguing case at MGH In 2008 doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital were presented with a novel ethical dilemma. A 36-year-old woman had collapsed on an...
Surrogate: I will give birth to bin Laden’s grandchild
Another story of tangled relationshipsWe missed this story when it broke, but it is too good to pass up. British serial surrogate Louise Pollard has...
A day in the life of a celebrity chef
This story dates back to mid-May, but it is a compelling blend of two of BioEdge's main interests, IVF and euthanasia. A celebrity chef once...
High tech romantic triangle in UK falls apart
Widow devastated to find that her husband is having a posthumous affair A millionaire’s widow in Britain is suing to prevent her late husband’s sperm...
Three-parent embryos could prevent genetic disease, say UK scientists
Embryos created free of mitochondrial defects Scientists in England say that they are just three years away from creating three-parent embryos which would be free...
British surrogate to give birth to her eighth child
Not the record holder If any should know what surrogacy is all about, it is 45-year-old Jill Hawkins, a British woman who is pregnant with...
Everything you wanted to know about OctoMom
Interview with New York Times MagazineThe New York Times recently spent a day with OctoMom, her 14 children and a British film crew and left...
Grieving Texas mother harvests dead son’s sperm
Part of healing process, she says A Texas woman has persuaded a court to allow her to harvest her 21-year-old son's sperm after his death...
Will IVF raise fertility in ageing societies?
Now that birth rates in most developed nations, with the exception of theUnited States, are below replacement level, policy wonks everywhere are graspingfor ways to...
Therapeutic cloning loses its glamour
Bill defeated in Western Australia Is the unstoppable advance of therapeutic cloning in danger of grinding slowly to a halt? This week a bill authorizing...