Australian court allows 62-year-old woman to have dead husband's sperm collected
A 62-year-old widow has received permission from the Western Australia Supreme Court to have her deceased husband's sperm extracted...
Rachel Siden is a Volunteer Writer at BioNews. She originally studied Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and went on to obtain an MA in Bioethics and Society from King's College London. She is currently a qualitative health researcher at Stanford University interested in LGBTQ+ health and wellness.
by Rachel Siden
A 62-year-old widow has received permission from the Western Australia Supreme Court to have her deceased husband's sperm extracted...
by Rachel Siden
An LGBTQ advocacy group in Japan has called on the Government to guarantee care for all pregnant women after a lesbian who obtained IVF abroad was denied routine care...
by Rachel Siden
Professor Sir Ian Wilmut, leader of the team that created Dolly the sheep, has died at age 79...
by Rachel Siden
The US Supreme Court has overturned the landmark Roe v Wade decision, which could affect the provision of IVF in some states...
by Rachel Siden
Professor Richard Lewontin, renowned geneticist and evolutionary biologist, has died at the age of 92...
by Rachel Siden
The first trial over a California fertility clinic's cryogenic tank failure concluded by awarding $15 million to five plaintiffs...
by Rachel Siden
A new genome editing approach may be faster and simpler than CRISPR...
by Rachel Siden
Fertility treatments for 33 patients have been postponed at Belfast's Regional Fertility Centre due to COVID-19...
by Rachel Siden
A British court is considering a claim to release a deceased patient's fertility clinic records to their heirs...
by Rachel Siden
A large-scale US study on male fertility has shown that taking zinc and folic acid supplements do not increase the health of sperm or rate of pregnancy...
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