Today, the Wall Street Journal reported that a Los Angeles fertility clinic is offering parents the capacity to choose the traits of their child to allow them to make, um, “The Perfect Baby.” The WSJ article, titled “A Baby, Please. … Continue reading →

Nearly a third of in vitro births involve twins or more. The government, along with professional associations, have been pushing fertility doctors to reduce that number, citing the disastrous health consequences that sometimes come with multiple births — infant mortality, … Continue reading →

The birth of octuplets to a California woman last week raised a boatload of issues that can distract us from the central ethical question posed by the case: How do we take children’s well-being into account in reproductive medicine? The … Continue reading →

“They will ask for extra things such as a holiday for their family – I think it is totally unacceptable for surrogates to hold couples over a barrel.” Carole believes legally binding contracts acceptable to UK courts are needed to … Continue reading →

More Than Two Decades After Baby M, More Couples Are Using Surrogate Mothers To Carry Their Embryos. Surrogacy today is a far cry from the late ’80s, when Americans were gripped by the Baby M case. more

The Vatican issued its most authoritative and sweeping document on bioethical issues in more than 20 years on Friday, taking into account recent developments in biomedical technology and reinforcing the church’s opposition to in vitro fertilization, human cloning, genetic testing … Continue reading →

The limit on the number of pregnancies that can be created from the sperm of a single donor should be raised, fertility experts suggest.  Under UK regulations, the maximum number of families that can use sperm from the same donor … Continue reading →

MORE than 1m embryos created for fertility treatment in British clinics have been destroyed over the past 14 years, government figures have shown. The Department of Health data show that 2,137,924 embryos were created using IVF between 1991 and 2005, … Continue reading →

Many children conceived by donor sperm have grown up angry and confused, and want a debate on their conception. Little is known about the effects on the children where parents tell them. Professor Blyth recently conducted a study involving 16 … Continue reading →