Medical school allegedly mistreated corpses in Pakistan
A hospital in Pakistan has come under fire for dumping bodies used in anatomy classes on the roof and leaving them to decompose in the...
What happened to the bones of Waterloo?
One of the most dehumanising practices of the Nazis at Auschwitz and other extermination camps was recycling the bodies of murdered victims. Often their bones...
Building the business of bundles of joy
Surrogacy, especially commercial surrogacy, is often criticised in BioEdge. So it’s only fair to give the surrogacy industry’s point of view from time to time....
IVF: a great investment opportunity
IVF is Big Business. Not as big as Big Tech or Big Pharma, perhaps, but Big. A bidding war for an Australian stock-exchange listed company...
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...
‘The Golden Age of status surrogacy is here’
Now that we’re broached the topic of commodification, let’s turn to Town & Country, America’s lifestyle magazine for the seriously wealthy. One of its articles...
The fine line between science students and ghouls
Commodification files. The widow of a 95-year-old Louisiana war veteran who died of Covid-19 was shocked to discover that her husband’s body – which he...
Push in Germany for legalisation of surrogacy
Free Democrats release position paper on liberalising fertility treatment A German politician is pushing for a thorough-going revision of family law to allow altruistic surrogacy....
India could ban commercial surrogacy
Probably no country knows more about the dangers of commercial surrogacy than India. And at the moment, it looks as though it could be banned...
India could ban commercial surrogacy
Lok Sabha passes controversial bill A controversial bill banning commercial surrogacy has passed the lower house (Lok Sabha) of the Indian Parliament. If it passes...
What the world needs is more surrogacy. ASAP!
A Marxist critique of the debate provides a controversial perspective Feminism is fracturing. The noisiest debate is between feminists who welcome transwomen into the sisterhood...
New York’s surrogacy bill fails at last minute
Governor Cuomo furious at chance to promote LGBT equalityLast week BioEdge reported that New York State was on the brink of legalising commercial surrogacy with...