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Fast Company September 2010 |
The Global Bazaar for Human Reproductive Material IVF has given hope to millions of aspiring parents, but the wild, international inconsistency of rules on egg donation has created big disparities - and for entrepreneurs, huge opportunities. |
Reason October 2006 Kerry Howley |
Ova for Sale The art of the deal in the gray market for human eggs, written by Donor #15. |
ifeminists September 22, 2004 |
Fertility Tourism Many aspiring parents dislike the laws that control fertility in the UK and are attracted by the more flexible foreign policies. |
Salon.com August 25, 2000 Jay Dixit |
Designer eggs This month a panel of medical experts responded to a Web pornographer who tried to auction supermodel eggs. |
Wired February 2002 Brendan I. Koerner |
Embryo Police Got designs on a designer baby? Egg sharing? Intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection? Meet the citizens panel that's more than happy to make your reproductive choice for you... |
ifeminists May 25, 2005 Wendy McElroy |
Case Could Freeze Sperm Donation A state supreme court is considering a legal appeal that could set wide-reaching precedent for both child support policy and fertility clinics in the U.S. The tangled personal circumstances of this situation constitute a legal nightmare and the sort of 'hard' case that makes bad law. |
Reason February 2009 Cheryl Miller |
Who's Your Daddy? Children of sperm donors are seeking more information about their once-anonymous fathers, sometimes at the risk of the fertility industry itself. |
BusinessWeek February 27, 2006 Catherine Arnst |
And Baby Makes...A Market "The Baby Business: How Money, Science, and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception" is a valuable, thought-provoking look at the baby-making business. |
Wired January 2001 Brian Alexander |
(You)2 Human cloning has always been frightening, seductive - and completely out of reach. Not anymore... |
ifeminists November 10, 2004 Bettina Arndt |
Spermwars There are children being created in Australia today via the internet, chosen by mothers who scan sperm donors' ads for the biological father for their child. |
HBS Working Knowledge November 17, 2003 Julia Hanna |
The Business of Babies The demand for babies by infertile couples and other would-be parents is huge -- and little discussed. Harvard professor Debora L. Spar looks at the market realities. |
Salon.com May 3, 1999 Dawn MacKeen |
The Clone Age Adventures in the new world of reproductive technology... |
Health May 18, 2009 Hallie Levine Sklar |
Babies After 40: The Hidden Health Risks of Mid-Life Pregnancy The number of women giving birth into their 40s and 50s and beyond is at record highs |
Salon.com January 31, 2001 Theresa Pinto Sherer |
Can two men make a baby? Researchers say it's possible, but lawmakers must pave the way... |
Salon.com October 5, 2000 Leah Kohlenberg |
Designer babies? Pediatrician and ethicist Joel Frader says that just because a family has had a child to provide a bone-marrow transplant for an ailing daughter, it doesn't mean custom-ordered kids are right around the corner... |
ifeminists October 22, 2002 Amara Graps |
Frozen egg birth begins a reproduction revolution for women Recent news in Britain announced that a woman who had become pregnant using her own frozen eggs gave birth to a healthy baby girl. |
ifeminists June 1, 2005 |
Letter: Sperm Donation Besides the reasonable assumption that a child is best raised by two adults, which may not always occur in a sperm donation situation, I think it's better for the child when they are partly raised by their own father as an additional parent. |
HBS Working Knowledge February 13, 2006 Manda Salls |
The Hidden Market for Babies Harvard professor Debora L. Spar discusses the research behind her book, The Baby Business: How Money, Science and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception. |
Salon.com July 24, 2000 Carol Mithers |
Hustling hormones I scored black market drugs to get my ovaries high -- and mighty. |
Popular Mechanics January 2010 Amber Angelle |
How to Create a Designer Baby Women undergoing in vitro fertilization could one day choose to have a baby boy with perfect vision, an aptitude for sports and a virtual lock on avoiding colon cancer. |
ifeminists September 21, 2005 Jennifer Roback Morse |
Is There a Right to Have a Baby? A California case in which a lesbian couple is suing an infertility clinic suggests we may be closer than we think to establishing a right to have a baby. And far from being an advance for women's liberty, this development would be a disaster for everyone's freedom. |
Wired January 2004 Wendy Goldman Rohm |
Seven Days of Creation The inside story of a human cloning experiment |
Reason |
Shopping for fertility markets Reproduction rules vary by country. For example, in France, gamete donation, sperm insemination, and in vitro fertilization (IVF) are available only to married couples or common-law spouses. |
Fast Company Rebecca Greenfield |
There's Nothing Fun About An Egg Freezing Party An egg freezing party does not involve any actual egg freezing. The events are information sessions on the process of conserving youthful eggs for a more convenient time in a busy woman's life. |
Wired October 2003 Wendy Goldman Rohm |
The Test-Tube Family Reunion Louise Brown turns 25. Happy Birthday, IVF. |
Salon.com May 25, 2002 Katharine Mieszkowski |
Our shiny happy clone future Procreation without sex, smarter babies and the right to choose the sexual orientation of your kids -- it's all good, says scientist Gregory Stock... |
Reason July 2008 Kerry Howley |
Baby Bust! After 200 years of exponential population growth, and just four decades after overpopulation doomsaying began filling the bestseller lists, the First World is suddenly gripped with underpopulation hysteria. |
Chemistry World January 20, 2009 Nina Notman |
Raman hope for childless couples A non-invasive way to test the quality of sperm to be use in fertility treatments has been developed by UK scientists. |
Psychology Today Sep/Oct 2007 Mark Teich |
A Man's Shelf Life As men age, their fertility decreases and the health risks to their unborn offspring skyrocket. But men who attend to their health can slow down the reproductive clock. |
Wired September 2001 |
Automated In Vitro Fertilization System Vitae aims to put the entire process on a single slide within two years... |
Seasoned Cooking April 2009 Martin Miller-Yianni |
Perfect Boiled Eggs Boiling an egg may seem like the simplest thing to do but actually boiling an egg will give you poor results. Here's what you should do. |
Salon.com September 22, 2000 Hal Millard |
Geriatrics to the rescue A South Carolina clinic is offering good healthcare to the uninsured and a meaningful life to retired doctors. Can the idea spread to the rest of the country? |
Reason May 2009 |
Letters Bush's midnight regulations, who's your daddy?, bongs away!... |
AskMen.com October 16, 2014 David Alm |
Apple's Egg Freezing Perk A new perk at two Silicon Valley tech giants allows female employees to freeze their eggs, ostensibly so they can be as ambitious as they want well into their adult years -- their biological clocks be damned. |
ifeminists September 13, 2008 Hsieh & Armstrong |
Amendment 48 is Anti-Life A proposed amendment in the Colorado defines the beginning of life as the time when an egg is fertilized. This definition will not only outlaw abortions, but several forms of birth control. |
Salon.com January 17, 2001 Ruth Marvin Webster |
Never too old My 70-year-old dad and his model wife are looking for a "little miracle"... |
Fast Company September 1, 2007 Ellen McGirt |
Fast-Food Medicine Retail health clinics are dotting the landscape like Starbucks, frustrating doctors but delighting patients. Is this the beginning of the answer to our national health-care crisis? |