Fertility

IVF

Who Owns Frozen Human Embryos?: Nick Loeb vs. Sofia Vergara

A contract is a contract, but a more generous spirit might relent

Ronald Bailey | 4.30.2015 4:35 PM

Science & Technology

Nobel Laureates Call For Halting Scientific and Ethical Progress

Permissionless innovation works best for both scientific and moral progress.

Ronald Bailey | 4.10.2015 10:51 AM

Bioethics

Three Parent Babies Approved By British Parliament. Hooray!

Naturally the usual bioluddites are eager to stop progress.

Ronald Bailey | 2.4.2015 9:17 AM

Policy

Is It Immoral for Men to Gestate? Transgender* Women?

Recent advances in uterus transplantation will soon make this possible

Ronald Bailey | 1.30.2015 1:30 PM

Bioethics

Ronald Bailey Asks If It Is Immoral to Enable Men and Transgender Women to Gestate

Just because it's new doesn't mean that it's wrong.

Reason Staff | 1.30.2015 1:30 PM

Population

U.S. Birth Rate Hits All Time Low - Total Fertility Rate Nearly At All Time Low

Ronald Bailey | 12.5.2014 12:41 PM

Policy

New Company Practices Virtual Eugenics

GenePeeks aids parents in their quest for healthier babies by reducing the odds of structural or genetic birth defects.

Ronald Bailey | 10.24.2014 1:30 PM

Biotechnology

Ronald Bailey Argues that Practicing Virtual Eugenics Is Just Great

Reason Staff | 10.24.2014 1:30 PM

Biotechnology

Who Cares If a Baby Has Three Parents?

Ronald Bailey | 8.26.2014 3:32 PM

Policy

Glenn "Instapundit" Reynolds Welcomes Our New Sex-Robot Overlords

Nick Gillespie | 8.18.2014 10:44 AM

Politics

Why Are Unwed Women in U.S. Are Having Fewer Babies?

Nick Gillespie | 8.13.2014 4:34 PM

Fertility

Smart Women Don't Have Babies

Ronald Bailey | 7.31.2014 12:07 PM

Fertility

Highly Educated Women Are Having More Children

Ronald Bailey | 6.17.2014 10:37 AM

Designer Babies

Immoral Scaremongering About Designer Babies in the New York Times

Ronald Bailey | 2.25.2014 11:05 AM

Science & Technology

Republican Senator Graham Introduces Bill to Ban Abortions After 20 Weeks

Ronald Bailey | 11.7.2013 2:10 PM

Policy

Population Explosion Again?

Increasing economic freedom will defuse it.

Ronald Bailey | 7.19.2013 2:15 PM

Abortion

Do Fetuses Feel Pain?

And would the answer really change minds in the abortion debate?

Ronald Bailey | 7.12.2013 1:20 PM

Science & Technology

Finally, Cloned Human Embryonic Stem Cells

Ronald Bailey | 5.16.2013 8:01 AM

Science & Technology

Made-to-Order Embryos for Sale - No Problem With That

Ronald Bailey | 4.23.2013 3:47 PM

Science & Technology

Test-Tube Baby Pioneer Robert Edwards Dead at Age 87

Ronald Bailey | 4.10.2013 1:06 PM

Overpopulation

Slate Magazine Misses the True Cause for Declining Global Fertility: Liberty

Ronald Bailey | 1.11.2013 12:04 PM

Policy

The Ethics of Egg Freezing

What's wrong with women resetting their biological clocks?

Ronald Bailey | 5.22.2012 4:45 PM

Culture

Is Assisted Reproduction Too Risky for Kids?

The bioethics of in vitro fertilization and birth defects

Ronald Bailey | 5.1.2012 4:30 PM

Politics

Anchor Babies Away?

Fertile illegal immigrants are good news for the country.

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 12.2.2011 6:00 PM

Politics

Trading Fertility for Prosperity

Good news about trade from the dismal science

Ronald Bailey | 8.30.2011 4:45 PM

Politics

The Eternal Return of Overpopulation

Getting the cause of high fertility backwards.

Ronald Bailey | 10.19.2010 4:30 PM