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Suzi Denton

Suzi Denton is a volunteer writer at BioNews

BioNews Articles by Suzi Denton

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.
Image by Bill Sanderson via the Wellcome Collection, © Wellcome Trust Ltd 1990. Depicts Laocoön and his family entwined in coils of DNA (based on the figure of Laocoön from Greek and Roman mythology).
News
24 April 2020 • 2 minutes read

High court orders fertility clinic to release deceased man's records

by Suzi Denton

A fertility clinic has been ordered to disclose records pertaining to the use of a dead patient's sperm to the personal representative of the patient's estate...

Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
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Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
News
27 March 2020 • 2 minutes read

Surrogate families separated by coronavirus travel restrictions

by Suzi Denton

The COVID-19 pandemic is preventing many families expecting children through international surrogacy from being present for the birth, or from bringing their child home...

Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
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Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
News
31 January 2020 • 2 minutes read

Colorado fertility doctor who used own sperm responds to lawsuit

by Suzi Denton

At least six women and their families are suing a doctor for negligence and fraud, after they discovered that he had used his own sperm in their fertility treatment...

Image by Dr Christina Weis. © Christina Weis
Image by Dr Christina Weis. © Christina Weis
News
29 November 2019 • 2 minutes read

First UAE surrogacy case ruling

by Suzi Denton

A court in the United Arab Emirates has ruled that a woman whose husband had a child through surrogacy without her knowledge or consent, is not the child's mother...

Image by Dr Christina Weis. © Christina Weis
Image by Dr Christina Weis. © Christina Weis
News
4 October 2019 • 2 minutes read

Indian surrogate's death raises concern over exploitation

by Suzi Denton

A pregnant surrogate has died at hospital in New Delhi, while a new surrogacy law awaits approval by the Indian Parliament...

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.
Image by Bill Sanderson via the Wellcome Collection, © Wellcome Trust Ltd 1990. Depicts Laocoön and his family entwined in coils of DNA (based on the figure of Laocoön from Greek and Roman mythology).
Reviews
2 September 2019 • 4 minutes read

Book Review: Birth Rights and Wrongs - How Medicine and Technology are Remaking Reproduction and the Law

by Suzi Denton

In his new book, Professor Dov Fox shines a light on the harms that are done to fertility patients, and the lack of protection which the law in the USA affords them...

Image by Dr Christina Weis. © Christina Weis
Image by Dr Christina Weis. © Christina Weis
News
2 August 2019 • 2 minutes read

Gay couple file lawsuit against US state department after baby denied citizenship

by Suzi Denton

A married couple has been told that their daughter is ineligible for US citizenship despite the fact that they are both American citizens...

Image by Dr Christina Weis. © Christina Weis
Image by Dr Christina Weis. © Christina Weis
News
14 June 2019 • 1 minute read

New York Senate passes bill to allow commercial surrogacy

by Suzi Denton

A bill that proposes to lift the ban on commercial surrogacy in New York State was passed by the State Senate last week...

Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
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Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
News
10 May 2019 • 2 minutes read

Indiana first US state to write 'fertility fraud' into law

by Suzi Denton

Indiana has become the first US state to pass legislation making it a criminal offence for fertility doctors to use their own sperm in treatment without their patients’ prior knowledge and consent...

Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
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Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
News
3 May 2019 • 2 minutes read

Embryos not 'living persons' judges rule in Ohio case

by Suzi Denton

An appeal court in Cleveland, Ohio, has ruled that a couple's embryos lost in a freezer-failure incident last year were not 'living persons', and should not therefore have been treated as patients rather than property...

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