Australian woman carried her own baby and surrogacy child simultaneously
An unusual situation where a surrogate conceived naturally around the same time as an embryo transfer has proved challenging for a Queensland court...
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Surrogacy
The practice of bearing a child for another person or couple. In gestational (also known as 'full' or 'host') surrogacy, the surrogate carries an embryo conceived through IVF. In traditional (also known as 'partial' or 'straight') surrogacy, the surrogate's own egg is fertilised with the intended father's sperm.
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TV Review: A Body That Works
Dr Dan Jacobson reviews 'A Body That Works', a complex drama exploring surrogacy, identity, and the relationships shaped by fertility treatment...
Baby with heart defect born amid US surrogacy conflict
A baby with a severe heart defect has been born in Texas, at the centre of a custody battle and wider discussion around surrogacy...
Germany's former health minister resigns over surrogate-born child
The parliamentary leader of Germany's governing party, Jens Spahn, has resigned after it emerged that he had a child via surrogacy in the USA...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
TV Review: Vicky Pattison – Maybe baby
Reality TV star Vicky Pattison explores whether she wants to become a parent in this two-part documentary...
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...
Ensuring respect for children's human rights in donor conception and surrogacy
Professor Marilyn Crawshaw, Dr Astrid Indekeu and Hannah Markham KC outline work to centre children's human rights in surrogacy and gamete donation...
Key findings of the 'Fertility, Embryo Research and Genome Editing' report
The PET team discusses findings from a PET/ESHRE report exploring attitudes to fertility treatment, embryo research, genome editing, donor conception, surrogacy and related topics in the UK, the Netherlands, Spain and Italy...