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 →

But recent surveys show that in about two-thirds of the cases, PGD isn’t being used to detect genetic diseases. It’s done, instead, to inspect embryos created in the lab for abnormal chromosome counts in cases in which parents with fertility … Continue reading →

Harvard`s Debora Spar has a commentary in a recent New England Journal of Medicine article that calls for an improved debate over egg donation and payment policies. Spar highlights a central inconsistency in American egg donation policy?we allow women to … Continue reading →

The number of twins born from IVF needs to be cut because of risks to mothers and babies, a watchdog has said. Older women or those who have already been through several unsuccessful IVF cycles would be very unlikely to … Continue reading →

And for expressing his approval of a hypothetical prenatal intervention to change a baby’s sexual orientation, he was verbally attacked by gay-rights advocates. Some of them likened him to the Nazi doctor Josef Mengele for seeming to advocate the manipulation … Continue reading →

Guidelines say all eligible women aged 23-39 should get one free cycle of IVF. But some areas have introduced restrictions such as age limits, with some saying a woman over 35 is too old, with others saying that is too … Continue reading →

IN the old days, nearly two decades ago, when Jeffrey Harrison was selling his sperm to California Cryobank, sperm banks did not tell clients much. The reason for offering clients previously unimaginable degrees of access to information is competition. more

If the mechanisms underlying sexual orientation can be discovered and manipulated,Dr. Wolpe continued, then the argument that sexual orientation is based inbiology and is immutable evaporates. “The prospect of parents” eventually being able tochoose not to have children who would … Continue reading →

Yet a San Antonio woman’s idea to bring the two together “creating complete embryos ready to be implanted into the womb” has drawn a raft of criticism, with bioethicists debating whether this is the commodification of children or just another … Continue reading →