IVF

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The other controversial legacy

Michael Cook | 16 April 2013 |

tags: bioethics, IVF, Nobel Prize, Robert Edwards

Robert Edwards, the inventor of IVF, died two days after Margaret Thatcher. History may show that his impact was even greater than hers.

The right to know those who gave us life

Margaret Somerville | 10 July 2012 |

tags: children's rights, IVF, same-sex parenting

Children’s rights are in danger of being overlooked in the increasingly bizarre permutations of reproductive technology.

Better than IVF

Anthony J. Caruso | 12 May 2012 |

tags: bioethics, fertility, IVF

Infertility is a complex problem. But one thing is certain: don't make children a postscript to a career.

An IVF doctor has a change of heart

Anthony J. Caruso | 19 April 2012 |

tags: bioethics, IVF

In 2010 an eminent Chicago IVF doctor left his practice of creating babies in Petri dishes. This is his story.

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?

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