Ethicists call for international limits on number of children per sperm donor
The four Nordic National Ethics Councils have called for cross-border regulations on the number of children that can be conceived per sperm or egg donor...
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Image by Bill McConkey via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts sperm swimming towards an egg.
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Podcast Review: The Human Egg Trade
Host Sarah Holder shares three unique and varied stories from all sectors, stages, and spheres of the fertility world...
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.
'Super' sperm donors not so super, warns judge
PET Trustee and family law solicitor Natalie Sutherland discusses the case of A v B and others, recently made public by a senior UK judge...
PET Podcast: What Can the Fertility Sector Learn from the Infected Blood Scandal and Inquiry?
Bringing you PET events as a podcast. In the 26th episode of its podcast, PET discusses lessons for the fertility sector from the UK's infected blood scandal, with Professor Abha Maheshwari, Professor Marc Turner, Professor Emma Cave and Professor Bobbie Farsides...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
What Can the Fertility Sector Learn from the Infected Blood Scandal and Inquiry?
The latest PET event focused on lessons from the UK's infected blood scandal, and the recently published final report of the Infected Blood Inquiry...
FILM: 10 Families and Counting – Time for Global Limits on Donor-Created (Half-) Siblings?
This film documents a PET event discussing whether there should be limits on the number of people – worldwide – who can be created from the sperm or eggs of the same donor...
Book Review: Eggonomics – The global market in human eggs and the donors who supply them
Ava Scott-Nadal reviews Dr Diane Tober's book on the global donor egg market...
Judge names prolific sperm donor in warning
A UK judge has publicly named a prolific sperm donor in a family law case, warning the public of the dangers of unregulated donation...
FILM: 40 Years of Egg Donation and Counting – What Have We Learned? What Happens Next?
This film documents a PET event marking 40 years since the announcement – in Australia – that a child had been born following egg donation for the first time...
Elective co-parenting: Redefining family in the modern age
Examining the impact on family formation and psychological functioning when elective co-parents meet through online networks...