Thai surrogates battle for babies birthed for Japanese millionaire
The surrogate mothers of nine of the babies fathered by a Japanese man and taken into care by the Thai authorities have filed for custody of the children...
Ayesha Ahmad was previously a Volunteer Writer at BioNews, and is studying for a PhD at Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry at the Universities of Exeter and Plymouth, where her research focuses on how the human embryo is conceptualised in contemporary Western scientific medicine. She is also a Visiting Research Fellow at Durham University, and she writes for the British Medical Journal's Medical Humanities blog and for the Newsletter of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.
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The surrogate mothers of nine of the babies fathered by a Japanese man and taken into care by the Thai authorities have filed for custody of the children...
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Reports of another surrogate-born baby abandoned in India by an Australian couple have further ignited the debate on international surrogacy in the wake of the Baby Gammy case....
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NHS bosses in York have been accused of backtracking on a promise to restart funding for IVF treatment, disappointing an estimated 110 couples requiring treatment in the area...
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South Africa has a hidden problem: suicides of women who are unable to conceive...
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An Australian fertility company has seen the price of its shares rise on the first day of its public listing on the stock market....
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The Irish Supreme Court has heard an appeal over surrogacy parenthood, reserving its decision for a later date....
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The partner of a man left in a coma after suffering a series of heart attacks is to take her request to obtain and store his sperm to the High Court....
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A court in Israel has rejected a lesbian couple's request to undergo a surrogacy procedure in the country....
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A sperm donor conceived a child during an 'intense extramarital affair', a High Court judge has ruled, and has been ordered to pay litigation costs of £300,000 and child maintenance...
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A woman has been sentenced to five years in prison after being convicted of forcing her adopted teenage daughter to artificially inseminate herself....
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