Alabama Governor Signs Bill Protecting IVF Treatments
After the Alabama Supreme Court ruled in February that frozen embryos were children, legislators scrambled to protect in vitro fertilization clinics.
Assisted Reproduction
Virginia Surrogacy Bill Doesn't Go Far Enough
Allowing surrogacy brokers to be paid is good. Allowing surrogates themselves to be paid would be better.
Parents, Not the Government, Should Make IVF Decisions
Two-thirds of Americans oppose the Alabama ruling that claims frozen embryos are equivalent to children.
Frozen Embryos Are Now Children Under Alabama Law
State Supreme Court Chief Justice Tom Parker cited the Bible to explain why.
Researchers Create Artificial Eggs, Chimeric Sperm, and Synthetic Embryos
All of these advances are in mice for now, but maybe these breakthroughs can one day be adapted as human therapies.
The Supreme Court's Dobbs Decision Threatens Assisted Reproduction
IVF at "significant risk"
Divorced Couple Dispute Over Pre-Embryos: One Wants Them Destroyed, the Other Wants Them Implanted
Colorado law says that ordinarily the decision is in favor of the person who doesn't want the embryos implanted; the Colorado Court of Appeals held that this applies even when the person has religious reasons for wanting to donate them to another couple.
Of Course It's Ethical To Make 'Three-Parent' Babies
Yet Congress is keeping parents from using modern biotech to prevent disease in their offspring
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.
Is It Immoral for Men to Gestate? Transgender* Women?
Recent advances in uterus transplantation will soon make this possible
Interpol Investigating Why One Japanese Man Has So Many Babies
"We are trying to understand what kind of person makes this many babies."
America and Thailand Are Global Leaders in This Kind of Reproductive Freedom
Many countries around the world ban in-vitro fertilization practices that allow for the selection of a child's sex.
Florida Rules Lesbian Egg Donor Has Parental Rights
Law that only protects heterosexual couples declared unconstitutional
Women Increasingly Using Donor Eggs for Pregnancy
More than half resulting in live birth
Wealthy Chinese Seek American Surrogates for Second Children
Also for possible citizenship purposes
Catholic School Teacher Fights Firing over Insemination Pregnancy
Church attorney says it's a violation of church doctrine
U.K. Parents Head to U.S. To Choose Baby's Sex
The service is banned in Great Britain
Is Assisted Reproduction Too Risky for Kids?
The bioethics of in vitro fertilization and birth defects
