Bioethics
Surrogacy Survivor Speaks Out: “She Exchanged Me for a Check”
Olivia Maurel grew up in a wealthy household where she had everything she could ever want. What she did not have was a sense of belonging or security. From an early age, something felt off, even if she could not fully explain it. “I always kind…
Twin Sisters Learn at 30 They Were Switched by IVF
At 30 years old, Sasha Szafranski learned something that turned her entire life upside down. She and her twin sister were not biologically related to their parents. Even more shocking, their biological family lived just minutes away from the…
Costco Will Sell Discounts for IVF and Egg Freezing
Costco Wholesale is partnering with telehealth provider Sesame and fertility clinic network IVI RMA North America to offer members discounted access to fertility treatments, including in vitro fertilization, egg freezing and intrauterine…
Scientists Keep Human uterus Functioning Outside Body for Experiements
Brave new world alert! Scientists used a machine deployed in organ transplant medicine to keep a surgically removed human uterus alive for one day, furthering the goal of being able to use donated uteri experimentally over long periods of time,…
States Should Protect Women and Babies From IVF
Two years ago, the Heritage Foundation analyzed the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) in vitro fertilization (IVF) data and found that approximately 4.1 million embryos are created via IVF each year, while the CDC reports that only 97,000…
Couple Sues IVF Clinic After Their Baby Isn’t Genetically Related
A couple in Florida has sued an in vitro fertilization (IVF) clinic after it was discovered that the baby the mother gave birth to had no genetic relation to the couple. Experts say the case highlights the ongoing lack of regulation governing…
Stop Surrogacy. Because Babies are Not Tools for Adult Validation
Recently, singer Meghan Trainor posted a picture of herself in a hospital bed, teary-eyed, and holding a newborn for skin-to-skin contact. The woman who carried and birthed the child, however, was nowhere in sight. Trainor and her husband used a…
Buying Baby Boys on a Mass Scale: America Has a Surrogacy Problem
As collapses in moral norms go, it is as thorough as one can imagine. On December 13, The Wall Street Journal released a report on a Chinese video-gaming executive who has used surrogacy arrangements in the United States and elsewhere to…
Scientists are Getting Human Embryos From Fertility Clinics and Killing Them for Research
Work continues apace toward the goal of gestating babies outside a woman’s body. Scientists have now implanted human embryos in “organoids” made of tissues that mimic the uterine lining. From, “Researchers are Getting Organoids Pregnant,”…
IVF Provision Removed From Defense Bill, Pro-Life Groups Applaud
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a $901 billion defense authorization bill Wednesday stripped of a controversial provision that would have required insurance coverage for in vitro fertilization for military families That move is drawing…