Canadian doctor loses licence for using own sperm in IVF
A Canadian fertility specialist, Dr Norman Barwin, has lost his medical licence for using the wrong sperm, including his own, to inseminate a number of IVF patients...
The insertion of a donated sperm sample into a woman's vagina, cervix or womb to achieve a pregnancy.
A Canadian fertility specialist, Dr Norman Barwin, has lost his medical licence for using the wrong sperm, including his own, to inseminate a number of IVF patients...
by Nina Chohan
The Canadian government has proposed updates to existing assisted reproduction law, including payment of expenses to gamete donors and surrogates...
The UK court of appeal has upheld the right of the parents of a sperm donor to spend time with their biological grandson...
For some unknown reason rooted in the mists of time I am addicted to The Archers, the not-so-everyday story of country folk that has been running on Radio 4 at 7pm every day except Saturday pretty much for ever...
A New York appeal court has ruled that a man who donated sperm to a lesbian couple has no legal right to demand a paternity test for the resulting child...
A woman has asked the Hawaii Supreme Court to overturn a ruling denying her request to sever parental rights to a child born to her ex-wife...
A retired fertility doctor who used his own sperm to inseminate patients will not be jailed for his actions...
by Daniel Bodri and 2 others
In 2008, parliament voted to scrap the controversial 'need for a father' requirement from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act; a consideration for 'supportive parenting' took its place. Alongside legislation giving rights to civil partnership (2004
A retired US fertility doctor accused of using his own sperm to inseminate patients at his clinic will plead guilty to misleading investigators...
An expert in male fertility has called for urgent research into the stark decline reported in Western sperm counts...
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