British couples desperate for a baby are travelling abroad for fertility treatment because of a shortage of egg donors in the UK.
The government is set to abolish the requirement for fertility clinics to consider the need for a father when deciding whether to offer treatment. It will mean clinics will no longer be able to deny treatment to lesbians and single mothers out of hand.
A woman left infertile after cancer treatment is making a final appeal to a court for permission to use frozen embryos fertilised by a former partner.
R. made it very clear that he had no ambition to be a primary parent and that he was happy to renounce his parental rights. (The latter is crucial to many lesbian couples, allowing the nonbiological mother to adopt and protecting her bond with the child in the event of the death of, or separation from, the biological mother.)
A woman left infertile after cancer treatment says she is “really scared” at the prospect of losing her court case over her frozen embryos.
The first UK babies have been born after a pioneering embryo test.
Ben Kleinman plans to marry next year, and already he looks forward to starting a family. But he knows, too, that there will come a day when he and his wife do not want more children, and that she may grow weary of shouldering the burden for contraception.
It is illegal in this country. But that does not stop growing numbers of British women contacting websites to generate thousands of pounds with their ovaries.
Couples are to be offered free fertility treatment in return for donating sperm to other women who are desperate for children. The offer, by the Care group of IVF clinics, comes as fertility experts warned that the shortage of sperm stocks in the UK was reaching crisis levels and had plummeted to a record low.
So why are so many women having to consider paying someone for their eggs? Egg donation used to be anonymous but, now the rules have been altered, fewer women are coming forward.
