ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION

Michigan doctor may have fathered ‘thousands’ of children

Michael Cook | 31 January 2021 | Comments

tags: artificial insemination, ivf, sperm donation, super sperm donors

In a 40-year career, he secretly donated sperm to infertile patients

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It’s tough being a 60+ single mother. Or maybe impossible

Michael Cook | 12 August 2016 | Comments

tags: artificial insemination, florida, ivf, older mothers

A Florida woman boasted of her late IVF pregnancy. Now her toddler has beaten her infant daughter to death.

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After half an hour, it all feels totally normal in Hollywood

Michael Cook | 17 January 2015 | Comments

tags: artificial insemination, Hollywood

Hollywood tittle-tattle is not the most reliable source, but, like all tittle-tattle, it’s fascinating.

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A new kind of diplomacy

Michael Cook | 17 January 2015 | Comments

tags: artificial insemination, Cuba, diplomacy

Artificial insemination helped in the thaw in relations between Cuba and the US.

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Palestinian boy born from sperm smuggled out of Israeli prison

Michael Cook | 14 September 2012 | Comments

tags: artificial insemination, Israel, Palestine

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.

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5 million IVF babies since Louise Brown

Jared Yee | 06 July 2012 | Comments

tags: artificial insemination, infertility, IVF

Five million "test tube babies" have been born to date, according to research estimates presented to a fertility conference this week.

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Italian court rules couple “too old” for daughter

Jared Yee | 23 September 2011 | Comments

tags: artificial insemination, Italy, IVF

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.

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UK minister allows prisoner access to artificial insemination

Michael Cook | 12 June 2011 | Comments

tags: artificial insemination, prisons

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.

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UK prisoner applies to father child with artificial insemination

Jared Yee | 20 March 2010 | Comments

tags: artificial insemination, IVF, stories

Imprisoned drug dealer seeks IVF treatment for Thai girlfriend