When children are left in a legal no man’s land due to our country’s surrogacy laws, they are no longer fit for purpose. Yet as a milestone High Court case has shown, this is exactly what is happening. The children in that case, now aged five and eight, were born following a surrogacy arrangement between
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Doctors in Canada have begun a new chapter in medical history, delivering the first in a wave of babies expected to be born this summer through a technique that some experts think can dramatically improve the success rate of in vitro fertilization (IVF). Now 22 days old, Zain Rajani was born through a new method
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Kovpak Vitaly – embryologist “I realize that thousands of patients place their fates in my hands. It can be said I create infertile couples’ happiness and their future children. I always remember this fact and my great responsibility. Entering embryology unit, my working place, I understand that someone’s family and happiness now depends on me
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Surrogate mothers like cartoon characters Chip and Dale race to rescue. But not with the aim to save the whole world and only infertile couples. It is a natural desire of any person to have children, and especially if it is a long-established family. Infertility diagnosis does not deprive of this desire. Surrogate mothers are
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A young woman has become the first in the world to give birth to a healthy child after doctors restored her fertility by transplanting ovarian tissue that had been removed and frozen while she was a child. A report of the case is published today (Wednesday) in Human Reproduction [1], one of the world’s leading
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Surrogate motherhood, which is so popular around the world, does not come by Great Britain. Law and legality are the main components of this issue. Because born child, regardless of the method, is to be registered. In 1985 British law stated that legal mother of the child is considered to be a woman who carried
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In Ukraine, the topical issue of acceptable maximum age of women who want use in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedure came up. After the case, when 66-year-old Swiss woman used IVF procedure in Ukraine, and gave birth to twins media war broke out in the world community. According to the Ukrainian law, it is absolutely legal
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JOHN PASCOE: I would have thought also that Australia has some obligation to track down and look after the welfare of the child that has been left behind. SAMANTHA HAWLEY: The couple told High Commission staff they couldn’t afford both children and wanted a girl, and that close family friends would adopt the boy. Although
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As her new novel hits shelves, actress and writer Meera Syal tells Hannah Stephenson about becoming a parent again in her forties and how humour helped her beat the childhood bullies. The subject of older mothers inevitably arises in conversation with Meera Syal, who had her son Shaan at 44, and whose latest novel features
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Are you sitting comfortably? Then’ll I’ll begin. Aaaargh. Just aaaargh. Please stop all the lectures about declining fertility. They are about as relevant to today’s women as an old episode of Listen With Mother. It’s a fertility apocalypse out there, says last week’s annual meeting of the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE)
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