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Assisted Reproduction

A zoomed in look at an IVF cellular procedure |  © Vchalup | Dreamstime.com

Assisted Reproduction

3-Parent Babies Born Healthy in the U.K.

The FDA blocked a similar successful treatment for mitochondrial disease a quarter of century ago.

Ronald Bailey | 7.17.2025 4:35 PM

Scientist freezing eggs | Lex van Lieshout/ANP/Newscom

Easter Egg

Why Women Freeze Their Eggs

It's not to further their careers, says Motherhood on Ice author Marcia C. Inhorn.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 4.18.2025 2:15 PM

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Reproductive Freedom

The Best of Reason: Surrogacy Is the New Battleground in Reproductive Freedom

Critics on both the left and the right decry surrogacy as exploitative, especially when carriers are compensated.

Vanessa Brown Calder | 2.25.2025 6:00 PM

A woman holding a baby | Photo: Courtesy of Evelyn Clark

Reproductive Freedom

Surrogacy Is the New Battleground in Reproductive Freedom

Critics on both the left and the right decry surrogacy as exploitative, especially when carriers are compensated.

Vanessa Brown Calder | 2.15.2025 6:00 AM

Collage of a pregnancy and a newborn baby | Gameto

Assisted Reproduction

Disrupting IVF? Baby Born From Egg Matured Outside of Mother's Body.

The process "reduces the duration of treatment cycles to just three days" and "replaces 80% of hormone injections required with traditional IVF," Gameto says.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 12.23.2024 11:30 AM

Governor Kay Ivey | ALABAMA GOVERNOR'S OFFICE/UPI/Newscom

Reproductive Freedom

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.

Emma Camp | 3.7.2024 2:47 PM

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Reproductive Freedom

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.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 3.4.2024 11:30 AM

A closeup image of the IVF lab process | Nevodka | Dreamstime.com

Reproductive Freedom

Parents, Not the Government, Should Make IVF Decisions

Two-thirds of Americans oppose the Alabama ruling that claims frozen embryos are equivalent to children.

Ronald Bailey | 2.28.2024 4:10 PM

woman holding photo of frozen embryo | AMELIE-BENOIST / IMAGE POINT FR / BSIP/BSIP/Universal Images Group/Newscom

State Governments

Frozen Embryos Are Now Children Under Alabama Law

State Supreme Court Chief Justice Tom Parker cited the Bible to explain why.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 2.21.2024 12:24 PM

Synthetic mouse embryos | Weizman Institute

Assisted Reproduction

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.

Ronald Bailey | 8.5.2022 4:05 PM

IVFdreamstime | Александр Марко | Dreamstime.com

Abortion

The Supreme Court's Dobbs Decision Threatens Assisted Reproduction

IVF at "significant risk"

Ronald Bailey | 6.27.2022 3:25 PM

Parental Rights

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.

Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 6.23.2022 5:26 PM

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Politics

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 | 2.12.2016 1:30 PM

Politics

Should Women Be Allowed to Rent Their Wombs?

The battle to legalize commercial surrogacy.

Nick Gillespie and Joshua Swain | 3.29.2015 1:00 PM

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Politics

Should Women Be Allowed to Rent Their Wombs?

Nick Gillespie and Joshua Swain | 3.24.2015 12:00 PM

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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

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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

Policy

As Attention to Surrogacy Surges, State Laws Seem Poised to Get Much Worse

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 9.18.2014 3:15 PM

Nanny State

Interpol Investigating Why One Japanese Man Has So Many Babies

"We are trying to understand what kind of person makes this many babies."

Reason Staff | 8.22.2014 11:28 AM

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World

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.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 7.22.2014 3:45 PM

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World

U.K.'s Sperm Supply Dries Up Following Anti-Anonymity Rule for Donors

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 6.30.2014 11:00 AM

Policy

Florida Rules Lesbian Egg Donor Has Parental Rights

Law that only protects heterosexual couples declared unconstitutional

Reason Staff | 11.7.2013 6:30 PM

Science & Technology

Women Increasingly Using Donor Eggs for Pregnancy

More than half resulting in live birth

Reason Staff | 10.17.2013 6:50 PM

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Policy

Wealthy Chinese Are Invading Americans' Wombs. Should We Panic?

Scott Shackford | 9.23.2013 6:30 PM

Policy

Wealthy Chinese Seek American Surrogates for Second Children

Also for possible citizenship purposes

Reason Staff | 9.23.2013 4:40 PM

Policy

World's First Test Tube Baby Turns 35

More than 5 million woman have conceived using IVF

Reason Staff | 7.25.2013 9:56 AM

Policy

Catholic School Teacher Fights Firing over Insemination Pregnancy

Church attorney says it's a violation of church doctrine

Reason Staff | 5.28.2013 5:20 PM

Science & Technology

Professor Sir Robert Edwards Dead at 87

Nobel Prize winner pioneered IVF

Reason Staff | 4.10.2013 12:44 PM

Culture

Surrogate Offered $10,000 to Abort Baby

Due to prenatal discovery of defects

Reason Staff | 3.5.2013 3:10 PM

Science & Technology

U.K. Parents Head to U.S. To Choose Baby's Sex

The service is banned in Great Britain

Reason Staff | 8.28.2012 7:30 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

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