Assisted Reproduction
Monday June 5th, 2023
Making a family is often assumed to be a man and woman, marrying and easily producing biological children together. But there are many ways to […]
Friday May 26th, 2023
Just weeks after she had surgery for a uterus transplant, the first woman to have this procedure done in Australia is pregnant! Kirsty Bryant had […]
Saturday April 29th, 2023
A recent study from the University of Cambridge took a look at children who were conceived naturally, versus children who were conceived through assisted reproduction, […]
Wednesday August 17th, 2022
One year ago, the use of medically assisted reproduction was opened up to lesbian couples and single women in France. Now, single women are creating […]
Friday July 15th, 2022
While there are many stories of finding a long-lost sibling, Chrysta Bilton may have the most unique sibling story of them all. She was conceived […]
Sunday May 15th, 2022
The new documentary from Netflix, Our Father, is an investigative look into the life of Dr. Donald Cline. He was a fertility doctor who used […]
Saturday March 5th, 2022
With genealogy research and ancestry testing becoming more common today, a lot of people who previously didn’t have complete information on their families are able […]
Thursday February 24th, 2022
A fourth Dutch doctor has now been accused of using his own sperm for fertility treatments offered to his patients. Between 1977 and 1985, Henk […]
Monday November 22nd, 2021
Spain has joined a number of other countries in allowing gay and single women to use reproductive assistance technology. Transgender women are also included in […]
Tuesday November 17th, 2020
As U.S. citizens, we rely on our elected officials to help shape policies that will benefit us as a constituency. U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D. […]
Tuesday October 20th, 2020
The idea of the “traditional” family unit in the United States, with two opposite-sex parents married to each other, changed fundamentally with the legalization of […]
Friday December 20th, 2019
Although surrogacy is continuing to grow in popularity and is a widely recognized and accepted practice in much of the world, there are still many […]
Tuesday November 26th, 2019
Millions of New Yorkers, and some residents of other states covered by health insurance offered through New York-based employers with 100 or more employees and […]
Wednesday July 24th, 2019
It started off as a common-enough story: A married couple who had trouble conceiving turned to a Los Angeles clinic offering in vitro fertilization to […]
Tuesday March 19th, 2019
After 21-year old West Point cadet Peter Zhu was fatally injured in a skiing accident in February, his parents had an unusual request: They wanted […]
Thursday January 10th, 2019
DNA tests are growing in popularity, with companies like 23andMe and Ancestry.com marketing the kits as a way to learn more about your roots and […]