Laws such as Alabama’s controversial ruling that gives personhood rights to frozen embryos will have ripple effects on how advance directives are interpreted by doctors and the courts.
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In the past, when courts considered disputes over what to do with no-longer-wanted embryos, they typically considered them property. The Alabama ruling challenges this legal precedent.
I’m a scholar, not an activist or an advocate. But now one of the most intimate, personal events of our lives had been turned into a political event by the state’s highest court.
Alabama’s case began when three couples sued an IVF clinic where their frozen embryos had accidentally been dropped.
What constitutes an ‘unborn child’ should not be decided by a relatively small number of religious conservatives.
IVF is a decades-old procedure that has allowed increasing numbers of prospective parents to have children. Evolving legislation may put it under threat.
A recent ruling from the Supreme Court of Alabama implies frozen embryos are legally equivalent to living children. This creates risks for IVF providers, and therefore problems for patients.
Surrogacy can exploit women, but others may choose to be involved for altruistic reasons. A scholar points out that surrogacy’s ethical value is dependent upon the people and systems who use it.
With sperm counts declining world wide, it’s important to know how to keep your sperm as healthy as possible.
After a chance discovery in the lab, this team used IVF to make hundreds of coral babies for restoration projects in New South Wales. So far the IVF babies are doing well in the wild.
IVF doesn’t always work, but clinics often don’t make that clear to patients.
The landscape has been shifting when it comes to employer interest in employee fertility journeys.
Scientists can create viable eggs from two male mice. In the wake of CRISPR controversies and restrictive abortion laws, two experts start a dialogue on ethical research in reproductive biology.
Mark Raphael Baker is best known for two outstanding memoirs, The Fiftieth Gate, exploring his parents’ Holocaust experience, and Thirty Days, about the death of his first wife.
When faced with the exorbitant costs of continued IVF, Alison and Deacon decide to steal a large sum of money - reflecting the real life desperation many couples feel.
Women’s fertility declines with age, but the ‘cliff’ we often hear about at age 35 is a myth: it’s more of a gentle slope.
We asked 1,000 people why they hadn’t donated their eggs or sperm, and their responses tended to fall in four categories.
The embryo is frozen in liquid nitrogen until a suitable female donkey is found to grow it into a baby.
A new report from IVF clinics across Australia and New Zealand has found male fertility is a factor in a third of couples seeking IVF.
Adults today may have grown up dreaming they would live to see working jet packs and robot assistants but few people imagined it would be possible to create life without reproductive cells.
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Karin Hammarberg is a Friend of The Conversation.Senior Research Fellow, Global and Women's Health, School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Monash University
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Dean and Professor, Law School, La Trobe University
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Monash University
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Emeritus Professor of Reproductive and Periconceptual Medicine, The Robinson Research Institute, University of Adelaide
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Senior Lecturer, De Montfort University
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Lecturer in the School of Applied Sciences, Edinburgh Napier University
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Professor - Emerging Technologies (Stem Cells) at The University of Melbourne and Group Leader - Stem Cell Ethics & Policy at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Professor and Group Leader, Reproductive Epidemiology, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Associate Professor in Sociology, Swinburne University of Technology
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Visiting Professor in Biomedical Ethics, Murdoch Children's Research Institute; Distinguished Visiting Professor in Law, University of Melbourne; Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, University of Oxford
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Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Macquarie University
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Professor of Bioethics, Macquarie University
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Professor, University of Adelaide
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Research Fellow in Biomedical Ethics, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Law, La Trobe University
