Messing with Mother Nature

Barbara Kay | 21 July 2009 | comment 4

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

The wrong cure for infertility

Bill Muehlenberg | 16 June 2009 | comment 15

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

The private world of child abuse

Carolyn Moynihan | 12 June 2009 | comment 17

The abusive institutions have closed but adults are still trampling all over the rights of children.

What about those octuplets?

Jennifer Roback Morse | 07 March 2009 | comment 24

Government indifference to responsible fatherhood is what made the tragedy of OctoMom possible. 

Society and artificial reproduction

Margaret Somerville | 17 February 2009 | comment 39

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 | comment 101

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 | comment 12

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

Defending life against unaccountable power

Josephine Quintavalle | 15 November 2008 | comment 7

The pro-life movement in Britain just fought a losing battle against the scientific imperative. What lessons are to be learned?

Brave new babies

Margaret Somerville | 13 September 2008 | comment 33

Reproductive technologies are creating children who have no real biological parents. They deserve better.

Lesbian fertility rights

Jennifer Roback Morse | 13 September 2008 | comment 10

Two California doctors endure an eight-year legal vendetta for declining to help bring a fatherless child into the world.

Dispossessed and forgotten: the new class of genetic orphans

Margaret Somerville | 19 September 2007 | comment 15

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

Should we create a market for making children?

Margaret Somerville | 10 August 2007 | comment 5

Powerful groups are lobbying to commercialise the fertility industry in Canada. They should be resisted.

Clutching at straws to reverse the birth dearth

Michael Cook | 05 August 2007 | comment 11

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

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