Surrogacy sperm mix-up means intended parents must adopt twins
A UK-based couple who discovered that an overseas fertility clinic had used donor sperm instead of the intended father's must adopt twins born via surrogacy...
Tarandeep Hira
Tarandeep Hira is a Volunteer Writer at BioNews and holds a Law LLB from Royal Holloway, University of London, and an MA in Medical Ethics and Law. His academic interests lie at the intersection of biotechnology, assisted reproduction and medical jurisprudence. His MA dissertation critically examined the ethical and legal justifiability of legalising human heritable genome editing in the UK. He currently works as an intellectual property paralegal and continues to pursue research in developments made in areas of assisted reproductive technologies and genome editing.
BioNews Articles by Tarandeep Hira
Fifteen people charged in connection with egg donor exploitation in India
Fifteen people, including five doctors, have been charged in Maharashtra, India following an investigation into the exploitation of financially vulnerable egg donors...
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.
Australia bans life insurance providers from using genetic data to restrict coverage
Australia has passed legislation that prohibits life insurance companies from denying or limiting coverage based on genetic testing information, a move intended to prevent genetic discrimination, improve public confidence and remove barriers to genetic testing...
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.
Arrests in India over egg donor exploitation
Arrests and official investigations have been prompted by an illegal network in India that seemingly recruits financially vulnerable women as egg donors for profit...
House of Lords gets two new clinican members
Professor Geeta Nargund, fertility specialist, and Professor Dame Clare Gerada, former president of the Royal College of General Practitioners, have been given peerages...
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.
Kenyan National Assembly passes Bill regulating IVF and surrogacy
Kenya's National Assembly has passed the Assisted Reproductive Technology Bill, marking the country's first step toward a legal framework regulating assisted reproduction...
India's Supreme Court clarifies surrogacy age limit law
The Indian Supreme Court held that legal limits on the age of intended parents via surrogacy should not apply to those who froze embryos before the regulations were introduced...