REPRODUCTIVE REVOLUTION
British mum becomes surrogate for son’s baby
Michael Cook | 07 March 2015 | Comments
tags: IVF, reproductive revolution, surrogacy
This week’s story from Britain wins the New Frontiers Award in Assisted Reproductive Technology hands down.
British mum in bid to give birth to child of dead daughter
Xavier Symons | 28 February 2015 | Comments
tags: ART relationships, informed consent, IVF, reproductive revolution
A British woman wants to give birth via IVF to the child of her dead daughter.
“My brother is the father of my son”
Michael Cook | 15 February 2015 | Comments
tags: ART relationships, IVF, reproductive revolution
A Valentine’s Day story from the British press.
British 9-year-olds to be prepped for sex change surgery
Michael Cook | 23 May 2014 | Comments
tags: gender dysphoria, gender reassignment, reproductive revolution
British children as young as nine are eligible to board the train for a sex reassignment surgery, according to the Mail on Sunday.
Australia recognises “non-specific sex” as legal option
Michael Cook | 05 April 2014 | Comments
tags: Australia, gender, gender identity, reproductive revolution
The Australian High Court has ruled that people can be officially recognised as a non-specific sex.
Blow to Germany’s animal lovers
Michael Cook | 07 December 2012 | Comments
tags: animal rights, bestiality, human dignity, natural law, reproductive revolution
Germany is a very big blip on the radar of BioEdge’s Reproductive Revolution Weirdness Watch this week.
State to pay for Massachusetts murderer’s sex change
Michael Cook | 07 September 2012 | Comments
tags: gender reassignment, reproductive revolution
A Massachusetts man with gender identity disorder murdered his wife in 1990 when she discovered him wearing her clothes. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole in 1992. However, the disorder did not disappear and he requested a sex change operation. After years of stonewalling by prison officials, a judge has ordered the state to pay for the operation.
British woman who had sex change has given birth
Jared Yee | 17 February 2012 | Comments
tags: gender identity, gender reassignment, reproductive revolution
The distinction between sex and gender has become even more complex, with Britain’s first transgendered “male mother” believed to have given birth.
Are Indian doctors turning girls into boys for parents who wanted a son?
Michael Cook | 09 July 2011 | Comments
tags: gender ratio, India, reproductive revolution, sex selection, son preference
If you are looking for lurid consequences of India’s worsening gender ratio, look no longer. Millions of girls are missing, aborted because of a deeply entrenched preference for sons. The consequence shortage of women has reportedly led to practices like kidnapping brides and wife-sharing. But in the north India city of Indore in Madhya Pradesh something even more bizarre is happening, according to the Hindustan Times. Couples are paying surgeons to do sex change operations on infant girls to tr
Woman had 2 children after secretly taking ex-husband’s frozen sperm
Jared Yee | 04 June 2011 | Comments
tags: human drama, IVF, reproductive revolution, UK
A father was forced to pay his ex-wife £100,000 so that she can raise two children she conceived via IVF without his consent after secretly taking his frozen sperm.
IVF mix-up mum to have twins with a surrogate
Michael Cook | 09 April 2011 | Comments
tags: human drama, reproductive revolution, surrogacy
Another adventure in the Wild West of assisted reproduction. Carolyn and Sean Savage, of Ohio, had two boys conceived naturally and an IVF daughter. But they wanted another child and resorted again to IVF. In 2009 Carolyn learned that the IVF baby she was carrying was not hers.
“What on earth have I done?” asks 58-year-old mother of IVF twins
Michael Cook | 26 March 2011 | Comments
tags: human drama, ivf, reproductive revolution
Another chapter in the reproductive revolution from the UK: 58-year-old Carole Hobson, a single woman, is now the mother of twins. Not exactly her twins. The biological mother is a 24-year-old Indian woman organised by a Mumbai IVF clinic; the biological father a Scandinavian engineer.
72 not out, and feeling broody
Michael Cook | 21 November 2010 | Comments
tags: human drama, IVF, older mothers, reproductive revolution
Romanian woman considers a second child
Court awards custody of Australian baby to four gay parents
Michael Cook | 11 September 2010 | Comments
tags: human drama, IVF, reproductive revolution, same-sex parenting
All fine people, says Judge
Surrogate: I will give birth to bin Laden’s grandchild
Jared Yee | 07 July 2010 | Comments
tags: human drama, reproductive revolution, surrogacy
Another story of tangled relationships
A day in the life of a celebrity chef
Michael Cook | 04 June 2010 |
tags: human drama, mercy killing, reproductive revolution
Weird combination of IVF and euthanasia
Everything you wanted to know about OctoMom
Michael Cook | 21 November 2009 | Comments
tags: fetal reduction, IVF, reproductive revolution
Interview with New York Times Magazine
Marriage of unwitting twins sparks IVF debate
Michael Cook | 17 January 2008 | Comments
tags: genetic parentage, genetic sexual attraction, incest, IVF, reproductive revolution, sperm donation
Brother and sister separated at birth and adopted out marry after “irresistible attraction”
Chicago clinic creates diseased embryonic stem cells
Michael Cook | 11 June 2004 |
tags: reproductive revolution
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