A fertility clinic’s promise to deliver the ultimate in designer babies – letting parents choose eye, hair and even skin color – is sparking a worldwide uproar. Dr. Jeff Steinberg has already let thousands decide their kids’ gender. Now he says … Continue reading →

Lifestyle factors will no longer be allowed to exclude couples from fertility treatment under revised gudelines. Lifestyle factors such as a person’s weight will no longer be a reason for health trusts to exclude them from IVF under guidance to … Continue reading →

A lesbian couple have won the right to NHS treatment to help them have a baby after threatening to sue health chiefs. The NHS GGC spokesman added: “There is national guidance on eligibility for NHS-funded assisted conception, including age, body … Continue reading →

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 →