Gamete Donor Anonymity is a Myth: Q&A With Seema Mohapatra
By some accounts, 26 million people have undergone direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic or ancestry tests. While some of the results of these tests seem might seem obvious (I turned out to be...
View ArticleThe Legal Limbo of Lost Embryos
Last summer, a group of cancer survivors and others struggling to have children held a memorial service for their “hopes and dreams lost.” That’s the message they had engraved on a bench in the Ohio...
View ArticleWhat Happens When Reproductive Tech Like IVF Goes Awry?
It sounds like the setup to a bad joke: Three couples walk into a fertility clinic. But the punch line—what happened to those families at one Los Angeles medical facility in August 2018—is no laughing...
View ArticleOn the Tyranny of Partners in Posthumous Reproduction Cases
By Shelly Simana The topic of posthumous reproduction has produced great interest globally due to the fundamental dilemmas it raises. The most controversial cases are the ones in which there is no...
View ArticleEgg Freezing Permissible in Islam, According to Egypt’s Dar Al-Ifta
By Sarah Alawi Dar Al-Ifta, Egypt’s Islamic body, issued a statement earlier this month on the legality of egg freezing under Islamic law following a controversial Facebook post by an Egyptian woman,...
View ArticleThe (Ante-Mortem) Interest in Genetic Continuity
By Shelly Simana Omri Shahar was killed in a car accident when he was 25 years old. At his death, Omri’s parents petitioned the Israeli family court for posthumous sperm retrieval. The request was...
View ArticleTime to Ban Heritable Genome Editing
By Jeffrey R. Botkin, MD, MPH, Professor of Pediatrics and Medical Ethics at University of Utah We are at a critical crossroad in reproductive medicine. How should science and society more broadly...
View ArticleNews on the Fertility Fraud Front: Mortimer v. Rowlette Raises Possibility of...
By Jody Lyneé Madeira Since families and doctor-conceived children first began to file lawsuits against physicians and clinics alleging “fertility fraud,” a term for illicit physician insemination,...
View ArticleInfants Born Through Surrogacy Contracts Cannot Be Canceled or Returned
By Katherine Drabiak Recently, media reported that Zheng Shuang, a popular Chinese actress, commissioned two surrogates with boyfriend Zhang Hang, and then allegedly decided, seven months into the...
View ArticleAssisted Reproductive Technologies: A Bioethical Argument for Medicaid Coverage
By Sravya Chary Assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) such as artificial insemination, egg retrieval, and in-vitro fertilization (IVF) have revolutionized the landscape for people facing...
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