This is probably the world’s biggest surrogacy family
February was the last time BioEdge visited Christina Ozturk and her husband Galip at their home in the Black Sea resort city of Batumi, Georgia....
UK shadow minister to have baby through surrogacy
In another step towards the normalisation of surrogacy, a 50-year-old UK shadow minister will be taking maternity leave to welcome a baby gestated by a...
Slovakia apologies for decades of forced sterilisations of Roma women
The government of Slovakia has made a formal apology to thousands of Roma [Gypsy] women who had been forcibly sterilized over several decades. The government's...
UNESCO issues guidelines on artificial intelligence
UNESCO has adopted an agreement defining the common values and principles needed to ensure the healthy development of artificial intelligence. AI is present in everyday...
Shonky stem cell products explode in US
Disturbingly, there are now more than four times as many businesses in the United States offering untested stem cell treatments than there were five years...
Black Friday discounts on babies from Ukraine
Commodification chronicles. It’s Black Friday in Kiev! The Ukrainian clinic BioTexCom is offering 3% off!!!!! on its surrogacy and fertility packages. The discount deal runs...
Austria makes vaccinations compulsory
Austria, reeling from a steep increase in Covid-19 cases, has become the first country in Europe to make vaccination compulsory. Those who refuse without a...
Gay businessman seeks to become UK’s oldest dad via surrogacy
A 66-year-old homosexual businessman in the UK plans to become the father of a child by a surrogate mother. He defiantly told the The Mail...
A novel Swiss solution for reputational damage over ‘death tourism’
The LifeCircle association in Switzerland is deeply unhappy about the country’s reputation for death tourism. People come from all over the world to take advantage...
City employees in Boston can get 12 weeks’ paid leave after abortions
While Iran is trying to wind back the clock on abortion (see BioEdge), Boston is trying to make it easier. According to a report in...
With fewer babies and more elderly, Iran pulls out the stops to promote births
Iran’s new "Law on Family and Youth Support" is a clear example of how different perspectives colour news coverage. Iran’s theocratic, authoritarian and anti-Israel regime...
Are doctors betraying their Oath for profit?
An Australian rheumatologist and an orthopaedic surgeon have penned a scathing condemnation of modern medicine as “not fit for purpose” and a danger to human...