reproductive technology

In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley painted a dystopian picture of human reproduction that was controlled and influenced from the moment an embryo was manufactured in a lab all the way through its ectogenesis. Unfortunately for us, Huxley’s…

Corporate media polls, including a new one from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, suggest Americans overwhelmingly support the creation of test tube babies via in vitro fertilization. There is an unreconciled…

Renowned British-American columnist Andrew Sullivan made waves this weekend when he debuted an article grappling with the moral and ethical implications of in vitro fertilization (IVF). In his essay titled “My Problem With IVF — And Ours,”…

When Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., blocked a vote on congressional Democrats’ radical assisted reproductive technology bill at the end of February, she cited Louisiana as an example of a state with “common-sense” in vitro…

Less than one week after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that embryos are children under the state’s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act, several fertility facilities brought their in vitro fertilization operations to a screeching halt.…

Before Kourtney Kardashian Barker naturally conceived her fourth child with her husband Travis Barker, she felt pushed into trying assisted reproductive technology. “I felt really pressured and pushed into doing IVF,” Barker, who is due…

What would you say if you discovered that your parents chose to birth and raise you over any of your other siblings because they believed your genes to be superior? That’s exactly what Pennsylvania couple Malcolm and Simone Collins did for…

An Oklahoma judge ruled on Thursday that a baby created for a lesbian couple using purchased sperm belongs with his biological mother and father, not his mom’s female ex. Kris Williams argued that because she helped raise the toddler with…

Growing up, Laura High always felt she was different. It wasn’t until she was 14 years old, when her father disclosed that she was conceived using purchased sperm, that her suspicions she was born an outlier were confirmed. “It was like…