Seeking views on surrogacy in the UK
A working group from Surrogacy UK has devised an online survey seeking views on people's experiences of surrogacy in the UK and opinions on the way it is regulated...
Professor of law, University of Kent
Professor Kirsty Horsey is an Adviser to PET (the Progress Educational Trust), and is a Volunteer Writer at its flagship publication BioNews. Kirsty was previously Reproduction Editor of BioNews, and together with Dr Jess Buxton and Professor Marcus Pembrey, she developed the BioNews writing scheme to provide practical science writing training and experience for PhD students. Kirsty is currently professor of law at the University of Kent and previously worked as a senior research associate at the London Women's Clinic. Previously, she was reader in obligations at the University of Kent's Law School, where she obtained her PhD on legal parenthood following the use of surrogacy and other forms of assisted conception. Much of her research remains focused upon assisted conception, and she is editor of Revisiting the Regulation of Human Fertilisation and Embryology, and coauthor (with Dr Erika Rackley) of Tort Law.
A working group from Surrogacy UK has devised an online survey seeking views on people's experiences of surrogacy in the UK and opinions on the way it is regulated...
A single man has become a father. Nothing wrong in this, you might suppose...
The fourth and final session of the Progress Educational Trust's (PET) annual conference was a single speaker session: Professor Lord Robert Winston, who was introduced and chaired by Jeremy Laurance...
I'm not sure how a television documentary manages to be saddening, heartwarming, uplifting and worrying all at the same time. BBC Four's House of Surrogates, which focused on one provider of paid-for surrogacy in India, where all the women acting as surrogates for one Gujarati clinic spent 'their pregnancy away from home in dorms', managed it...
This surrogacy study-day was a chance to (re)discover hot topics in surrogacy and engage in some collective re-imagining of the ethical and legal problems it poses...
Once upon a time, motherhood was certain. It was proved by giving birth. The Latin maxim 'mater semper certa est' that told us so was irrefutable. Whether or not that was ever actually true, it has for a long while been biologically, as well as socially, questionable....
It feels very strange to no longer be a BioNews editor, having been doing this for the best part of the last ten years and having been associated with Progress Educational Trust (PET) for even longer than that. For one thing, I'm not entirely sure yet what I'm going to do with my Mondays....
The UK's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has updated its position on the way clinics should be charged for performing IVF with a single embryo transfer (SET)...
by Dr Jess Buxton and 1 others
We at BioNews are celebrating its 10th birthday this week, with the publication of our 500th weekly email newsletter. Created and launched in 1999 by Juliet Tizzard - the first director of Progress Educational Trust (PET) - as a news round-up service for a few hundred interested people, BioNews now has an...
BioNews reporting from ESHRE conference, Barcelona:By Dr Kirsty Horsey: Scientists looking at pregnancy rates in women who have previously had IVF treatment say that lifestyle factors play a large part in whether a woman will go on to achieve a natural pregnancy or not. Speaking at the annual meeting...
BioNews, published by the Progress Educational Trust (PET), provides news and comment on genetics, assisted conception, embryo/stem cell research and related areas.