The insertion of a donated sperm sample into a woman's vagina, cervix or womb to achieve a pregnancy.
In the wake of last week's recommendation from Baroness Mary Warnock that the law be changed to allow children who are conceived using donated sperm to trace their biological fathers, a High Court action has begun in the UK in which a woman and a child born from donor insemination...
Should people conceived through egg, embryo or sperm donation be able to find out the identity of their biological parents? This issue was the subject of much discussion in the UK media last week, following news that Baroness Warnock appears to have changed her mind on the matter à eighteen years...
The Italian Parliament was presented with a bill on assisted reproduction last week. Some of the provisions of the bill are thought to be likely to 'provoke one of Italy's biggest political battles this season'. The bill recognises 'the right to birth of the conceived' and specifies that 'production of...
This week's BioNews reports on a recent study of families with children conceived using assisted reproduction techniques. Surprisingly for a story that mentions IVF, it was hardly mentioned in the press. The authors, who reported their findings at an international conference last week, looked at the psychological health of families...
A follow-up study of 400 families from across Europe who used assisted reproduction techniques (ARTs) to have their children shows that being created by an 'artificial' method of conception does not have a negative effect on children, as compared with children from families created either naturally or by adoption. The...
A High Court judge last week granted permission for a judicial review of a clinic's decision not to release records of sperm donors to their 'children'. Joanna Rose, a 29 year-old woman from Brisbane, Australia, and the parents of a five year-old British boy born from donor insemination, were brought...
Should IVF and donor insemination (DI) be available only to married women? This is a debate preoccupying the Australian High Court at the moment, as it seeks to find a resolution to a growing legal and political battle of wills. Although a decision may be some time coming, the judges...
Professor Susan Golombok, director of the City University Family and Child Research Centre spoke at the ESHRE meeting last week about new data on children born following assisted reproduction techniques (ARTs). The data comes from the next stage in an ongoing European study of assisted reproduction families and looks at...
Canadian Health Minister, Allan Rock, has presented draft legislation on assisted reproduction to the Canadian Government's Standing Committee on Health. The legislation would be the first of its kind in Canada and would ban human cloning and other 'unacceptable practices' whilst regulating assisted reproduction treatment provision and research. The committee...
The science news over the weekend has been dominated by one story. In a shambolic conference in Rome last Friday, Severino Antinori and his colleague Panayiotis Zavos told scientists and journalists of their intention to offer cloning to infertile couples some time in the next two years. Few medical and...
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