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| Baby Business Boom More Women Apply as Economy Slipsby Monifa Thomas, Chicago Sun-TimesAugust 1st, 2008Some Chicago area fertility clinics say they've seen a surge in women inquiring about becoming egg donors or surrogates for infertile couples, apparently because of the recent economic downturn. |
| Happy Birthday!by Pete Shanks, Biopolitical TimesJuly 25th, 2008Louise Brown's 30th birthday is also the 30th anniversary of the start of the modern assisted reproduction industry. |
| Is social egg-freezing the right thing for you?by Rebecca Ley, The SunJuly 15th, 2008Thanks to a new flash-freezing technique called vitrification, which minimises damage to the eggs, a new generation of thirty-something "social" egg freezers determined to secure their shot at motherhood is growing. |
| Sperm on the high seasby Marcy Darnovsky, Biopolitical TimesJuly 2nd, 2008A discussion of regulating medical tourism in "The challenge of `sperm ships’: The need for the global regulation of medical technology" |
| India Plans Regulations for Surrogate MotherhoodSify NewsJune 26th, 2008Concerned with an increasing number of foreigners coming to India to rent a womb, the government is planning to come out with regulations to ensure legal and medical rights to surrogate mothers and children born to them. |
| IVF 30 Years On by Olga Craig, Telegraph [UK]June 16th, 2008When the first test-tube baby was born, it wasn't just the beginning of a new life but of a whole new approach to infertility. But what few women realise is that IVF treatment has become increasingly aggressive: so much so that there are very real risks involved.
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| Homo Genesis [PDF]by Marcy Darnovsky, BitchJune 6th, 2008Techno enthusiasts are marketing extreme reproductive technologies to gay families in a way that could set us on the road to a new chapter in eugenic experimentation. |
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