New York court rules embryo to be destroyed
A New York Court has ordered that a former couple's last frozen embryo must be destroyed, per the husband's wishes, despite being the woman's last chance to have a biologically related child...
Dr Mary Yarwood
Mary Yarwood is a Volunteer Writer at BioNews, and a Volunteer at the charity that publishes it, the Progress Educational Trust (PET). She is currently studying for a PhD at Queen Mary University of London, where she previously obtained an MA in Medical Law and Ethics. Her PhD research focuses on whether prisoners should be given access to reproductive technologies to enable them to have children while incarcerated. Previously, she studied Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
BioNews Articles by Dr Mary Yarwood
Non-cohabiting married couple ruled legal parents in surrogacy case
A UK man and woman in a platonic marriage have been granted a joint parenting order for their child, born via surrogate...
Australian surrogate banned from child's life after bitter legal feud
A surrogate from Queensland, Australia has had her parental rights removed after a judge decided it was in the baby's best interests...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
NHS IVF no longer available in county that pioneered it
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group has removed funding for free IVF treatment, despite being the county where the procedure was first developed 40 years ago...
Image by Bill Sanderson via the Wellcome Collection, © Wellcome Trust Ltd 1990. Depicts Laocoön and his family (from Greek and Roman mythology) entwined in coils of DNA.
Tennessee recognises lesbian woman as 'husband' in sperm donor baby dispute
A judge in Knox County, Tennessee, has granted a divorced woman the same legal rights as a husband over a child conceived through donor insemination...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
Book Review: Moondance
How can you long for someone who doesn't exist? Diane Chandler's second novel charts the story of Cat and Dom as they attempt to have a child through fertility treatment...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
Controversy over NHS funding of fertility treatment for transgender patients
Transgender men are being permitted to freeze their eggs at NHS-funded fertility clinics, prior to gender re-assignment...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
Australian documentary accuses IVF clinics of peddling false hope
An Australian documentary has claimed that women over 40 are being misled about their chances of conceiving via IVF treatment when using their own eggs...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
Woman in her 70s gives birth in India
A woman believed to be 72 years old has given birth to a baby boy in India, following IVF treatment...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
Bedfordshire CCG considers removing all funding for IVF
Bedfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group is consulting the public on whether to remove all funding for IVF treatment, apart from for special medical exceptions...
