Michaela Chen is a Volunteer Writer at BioNews and is currently completing her Masters of Law with a Specialism in Human Rights at the London School of Economics. Previously, she was a practicing lawyer in Toronto, Ontario having been called to the bar in 2018. She has a specific interest in the intersections of reproductive justice and international law.
The president of the Family Division of the High Court has warned parents against considering unlawful surrogacy arrangements abroad after a 'highly unusual' case...
Has the time come to widen the scope of legal parentage? Michaela Chen reviews this debate between experts at the Royal Courts of Justice...
The Italian senate has approved a ban making surrogacy a 'universal crime'...
Michaela Chen reviews a 'a tale as old as industrialism', about the fight families brought to find out more about their lost embryos and information about their sperm donors…
An Australian couple is suing their fertility clinic for using the wrong sperm for two of their children...
Two UK men are unable to leave Cyprus with their babies born via surrogacy there, due to delays in obtaining passports for their children...
A Dutch fertility doctor has been found to be the genetic father of at least three patients conceived in his clinic...
The Australian Senate has passed a bill which will legalise the clinical use of mitochondrial donation by a vote of 37 votes for to 17 against...
A bill permitting mitochondrial donation has been passed by the Australian House of Representatives...
A Utah couple is suing their IVF clinic after discovering that sperm from another patient was used to conceive their son...
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