Artificial Insemination

Italian court rules couple “too old” for daughter

Jared Yee | 23 September 2011

A court in Italy has ruled that a 70-year-old father and a 57-year-old mother of an IVF toddler are “too old” and selfish to raise their daughter, and has urged them to give her up for adoption, Italian media reported last week.

UK minister allows prisoner access to artificial insemination

Michael Cook | 12 June 2011

If family life is a human right, shouldn’t prisoners be able to father children from behind bars? This is the question being debated in the UK after it emerged that Prisons minister Crispin Blunt approved an unnamed inmate’s request for artificial insemination. According to the London Telegraph, the decision was taken because the prisoner and his partner had already started IVF treatment before he was jailed.

UK prisoner applies to father child with artificial insemination

Jared Yee | 20 March 2010

Imprisoned drug dealer seeks IVF treatment for Thai girlfriend