IVF

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Misconceptions about a new vein of comedy

Damian Adams | 21 November 2011 |

tags: IVF, sperm donation

Not knowing your biological father is hardly a fit topic for Hollywood slapstick.

Are babies prizes or gifts?

Margaret Somerville | 18 October 2011 |

tags: commercialism, IVF, slavery

A Canadian radio station created world-wide controversy recently when it ran a "win a baby" competition.

The true cost of egg donation

Mary Rice Hasson | 26 January 2011 |

tags: egg donors, exploitation, IVF, women

A pretence of altruism cloaks the mercenary and exploitative reality of this aspect of IVF.

Abortion of twins exposes twisted logic

Bill Muehlenberg | 11 January 2011 |

tags: abortion, IVF, philosophy, sex selection

Reaction to a couple's decision to abort twin boys because they wanted a girl has provoked some surprising comment

Nobel award: misconceived

Carolyn Moynihan | 08 October 2010 |

tags: infertility, IVF, Nobel Prize, Robert Edwards

Robert Edwards' IVF technique devalued the human embryo and contributed to infertility.

Orphaned at conception

Michael Cook | 01 June 2010 |

tags: children, IVF, sperm donation

Is it high-tech child abuse to rob children of their biological heritage?

Ethics of paying for test-tube babies

Margaret Somerville | 16 September 2009 |

tags: fertility, human rights, IVF

If society pays the costs for creating test-tube babies, we also have to accept the ethical responsibility.

Messing with Mother Nature

Barbara Kay | 20 July 2009 |

tags: IVF

The human species is changing but we're stuck on polar bears

The wrong cure for infertility

Bill Muehlenberg | 16 June 2009 |

tags: IVF

Turning baby-making into a technology can have devastating results. 

Sexual insanity

Bill Muehlenberg | 27 February 2009 |

tags: IVF, Octomom

A 13-year-old father? A woman with 14 IVF children? We can’t say we were not warned.

Society and artificial reproduction

Margaret Somerville | 17 February 2009 |

tags: adoption, assisted reproductive technology, IVF

Should the state assist with conception where it would not approve an adoption?

A creation myth for the 21st century

Lea Singh | 09 January 2009 |

tags: IVF

Did anyone ever ask IVF children whether they wanted to go through life as genetic orphans?

An indulgence of adult desires

Brigitte Pellerin | 22 December 2008 |

tags: IVF, motherhood, surrogacy

Surrogate motherhood isn't about forming families; it is about satisfying adult desires.

Dispossessed and forgotten: the new class of genetic orphans

Margaret Somerville | 18 September 2007 |

tags: IVF

Being a mother or father used to be the only bond you could not break -- until the arrival of reproductive technology.

Clutching at straws to reverse the birth dearth

Michael Cook | 04 August 2007 |

tags: demography, IVF

Subsidies don't work. Speed dating doesn't work. What about IVF?

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