Three-parent embryo law passed in Australia
A bill authorising three-parent embryos sailed through the upper house of the Australian Parliament in late March after a fierce debate. “Maeve’s Law”, named after...
Ukraine’s surrogacy agencies overlooked the worst-case scenario — war
Burnt-out tanks in snowy landscapes, thousands scrambling across borders with their suitcases, soldiers handing out automatic rifles like lollies to civilians, young families huddled together...
No ethical obstacles to artificial gametes, says ethicist
While the development of induced pluripotent stem cells has opened up many avenues of research into promising therapies, it has also made possible the creation...
Dutch IVF doctor secretly fathered at least 21 children
A third doctor who used his own sperm to inseminate his patients has surfaced in the Netherlands. A DNA investigation has shown that Dr Jan...
Meet the ‘world’s most prolific sperm donor’
An Englishman who describes himself as the "world's most prolific sperm donor", says he has fathered 129 children, and another nine on the way. His...
French doctors accused of ‘fertility fraud’
For the first time in France, doctors have been accused of “fertility fraud”. An association which links donor-conceived children with parents, PMAnonyme, notified authorities that...
World’s most prolific surrogate accidentally gave away her own child
Carole Horlock is probably Britain’s most prolific surrogate mother. She gestated and gave away 13 babies before hanging up her boots in 2012 at the...
Folx, abortion is OK but transphobic pronouns are not OK
Dispatch from the Reproductive Revolution. Quinn Jackson, MD, (they/he) is a family medicine physician in Kansas City, Missouri, and a fellow with Physicians for Reproductive...
Dutch fertility doctor sired at least 47 children
Fertility fraud files. The number of children sired by a gynaecologist at a hospital in the Dutch city of Zwolle has risen to at least...
An even darker side to fertility fraud in the 60s and 70s
Dispatches from the Reproductive Revolution. Fertility fraud is becoming a ho-hum story, but just for the record, a woman in Louisville, Kentucky, discovered recently that...
Another case of fertility fraud in the US
Oops, not again. Another American gynaecologist using his own sperm to impregnate his patients? Yup, sorry. Dr Morris Wortman, of Rochester, New York, is being...
Oregon millionaire wins court battle to be a single dad
Genetic mother excluded from child’s life Jordan and Cory in happier days Dispatches from the Reproductive Revolution 1. An Oregon multi-millionaire and philanthropist has won...