Meet the father of one thousand kids
Well, maybe only 200, who knows? 'Louis' with a daughter, Joyce Curiere. Photo: Judith Jockel for the Guardian Another adventure in the reproductive revolution. Last month...
Celebrating the reproductive revolution
Occasionally we tag one of our articles “reproductive revolution” because it exemplifies how far law and technology take us once sex has been detached from...
What is a good enough reason for a womb transplant?
Indian woman ‘borrows’ her mother’s because hers was scarred after abortions. Another chapter in the Reproductive Revolution. An Indian woman has given birth to a...
“Wow, we both got to carry the baby”
Another chapter in the Reproductive Revolution Bliss (l) and Ashleigh (r) Coulter with son Stetson Another chapter in the Reproductive Revolution. Lesbian couples who want...
Will the male of the species go the way of the dodo?
Chinese researchers create healthy mice from same-sex mothers Are men becoming obsolete? This dire news (or possibly good news in some circles) has been voiced...
Dutch man may have fathered 1000 children
Could be the world’s most prolific father Amsterdam street scene Ivo van Halen, a 34-year-old Dutch IT consultant, is compiling a very long Christmas card...
13-year-olds given mastectomies at California clinic
The girls have no regrets, transgender counsellors How old does one have to be to consent to a mastectomy? Only 13, it appears. An article...
British grandparents use dead son’s sperm to create child
Allegations of criminal behaviour by urologist Another fascinating chapter in the unfolding history of the Reproductive Revolution, this time about posthumous sperm extraction. A few...
Man discovers that partner had sperm swapped for lover’s during IVF
Doctors at the Moscow clinic cooperated with the woman's request. A Russian man has successfully sued an IVF clinic in Moscow after his wife secretly...
China is struggling to undo a one-child culture
Authorities are now pro-natalist -- but Chinese society is not. In January 2016, the Chinese government formally abandoned its one child policy in favour of...
Child removed from Britain’s oldest IVF parents
Social services found them unfit Britain’s oldest IVF parents have had their child removed by a government agency after they failed to meet minimum care...
In post-one-child-policy China posthumous conception is a matter of desperation
Grandparents sue to perpetuate bloodline An underground market in surrogacy is booming in China after the Communist Party reversed the decades-old one-child policy. Nothing illustrates...