Grandparents win legal right to see donor sperm grandchild
The UK court of appeal has upheld the right of the parents of a sperm donor to spend time with their biological grandson...
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DI (donor insemination)
The insertion of a donated sperm sample into a woman's vagina, cervix or womb to achieve a pregnancy.
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Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts equipment used for embryo biopsy.
Radio Review: Surrogacy in The Archers
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...
US lesbian couple's parental rights upheld after sperm donor asserts paternity
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...
Same-sex parental support case raises consent issues
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...
US fertility doctor receives no jail time for using his own sperm in clinic
A retired fertility doctor who used his own sperm to inseminate patients will not be jailed for his actions...
Shared motherhood IVF for lesbian couples is gaining acceptance in the UK
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
US fertility doctor accused of using own sperm changes plea
A retired US fertility doctor accused of using his own sperm to inseminate patients at his clinic will plead guilty to misleading investigators...
Act now to investigate male infertility, urges expert
An expert in male fertility has called for urgent research into the stark decline reported in Western sperm counts...
Dutch sperm donor may have fathered 102 children
A man is being investigated in the Netherlands after claims he fathered over 100 children through sperm donation...
Disease-causing mutation edited out of human embryos
Scientists have published their study confirming they are the first to correct a disease-causing mutation in human embryos using genome editing...