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Israel
Israeli sperm donor wants his stuff back
Michael Cook | 02 March 2013 |
A fascinating case is unfolding in Israel pitting a anonymous sperm donor against a woman who demands his sperm.
Israel halts underhanded contraceptive injections for Ethiopian migrants
Michael Cook | 02 February 2013 |
Years of rumours that Ethiopian women were pressured into having contraceptive injections by Israeli officials have finally been confirmed.
Palestinian boy born from sperm smuggled out of Israeli prison
Michael Cook | 14 September 2012 |
The wife of a Palestinian prisoner held in an Israeli jail has given birth to his son, even though she has not seen him for 15 years. Ammar Ziban, 37, smuggled his sperm to an IVF clinic in the West Bank where his wife Dalal was artificially inseminated.
Call for Israel to change surrogacy laws
Jared Yee | 26 May 2012 |
An Israeli Health Ministry committee has made some radical recommendations about fertility and birth policies last week, including allowing gay men to use a surrogate mother to conceive a child.
How long should women persevere with IVF?
Michael Cook | 05 May 2012 |
In Israel women with up to two children can receive unlimited free, government-funded IVF treatment. This means that it is an ideal place to test the effectiveness of IVF in increasing fertility. Unfortunately, according to the Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, this policy has failed. Instead, it has just hooked some women on endless painful and humiliating IVF treatment.
Israeli mothers no longer have to adopt babies born via surrogate
Jared Yee | 10 March 2012 |
A Tel Aviv family court set a legal precedent this week when it ruled that a woman whose eggs were used in a surrogate birth is the child’s legal mother. Until now, legal ambiguities forced women who used gestational surrogates to adopt their own children.
Israeli woman wants own baby to be recognised as triplet of twins born to surrogate
Jared Yee | 03 March 2012 |
An Israeli woman is appealing to the National Insurance Institute to recognise a baby she gave birth to, along with twins born via surrogate mother, as triplets, in an attempt to gain the sizeable benefits granted to mothers of triplets.
Report slams Israeli doctors’ complicity in torture
Michael Cook | 12 November 2011 |
Some Israeli doctors have cooperated in the torture and mistreatment of prisoners, according to a report by two human rights organisations, Physicians for Human Rights Israel and the Public Committee against Torture in Israel. Their claims are based on more than 100 cases of ill treatment of Palestinian detainees since 2007.
Israeli children who sue for being born
Jared Yee | 03 November 2011 |
Israeli children with birth defects increasingly sue medical authorities for allowing them to be born.
World first as Israel court allows egg extraction from deceased woman
Jared Yee | 11 August 2011 |
An Israeli court has allowed the parents of a dead 17-year-old woman to remove her eggs for future use.
Surrogate motherhood not only for barren parents: Israeli court
Jared Yee | 29 July 2011 |
The number of children a couple already has is not a sufficient reason to reject a surrogate motherhood application, Israel’s High Court of Justice ruled this week.
Israel leads the world in IVF
Jared Yee | 22 July 2011 |
The Assuta Hospital in Tel Aviv is one of the busiest IVF clinics in the world, with 7,000 cycles each year.
Israeli feminists slate surrogacy
Jared Yee | 12 June 2011 |
The Israeli feminist group Isha L’Isha has published a harshly critical report on surrogate motherhood.
South African hospital guilty of illegal kidney trading
Jared Yee | 21 November 2010 |
More organ trading nightmares
Israel stunned by organ scandal
Michael Cook | 04 January 2010 |
Anger and suspicion in Arab world
Holders of transplant donor cards will have priority in Israel
Michael Cook | 04 January 2010 |
First country in world
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