REPRODUCTIVE REVOLUTION

British mum becomes surrogate for son’s baby

Michael Cook | 07 March 2015 | Comments

tags: IVF, reproductive revolution, surrogacy

This week’s story from Britain wins the New Frontiers Award in Assisted Reproductive Technology hands down.

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British mum in bid to give birth to child of dead daughter

Xavier Symons | 28 February 2015 | Comments

tags: ART relationships, informed consent, IVF, reproductive revolution

A British woman wants to give birth via IVF to the child of her dead daughter.

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“My brother is the father of my son”

Michael Cook | 15 February 2015 | Comments

tags: ART relationships, IVF, reproductive revolution

A Valentine’s Day story from the British press.

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British 9-year-olds to be prepped for sex change surgery

Michael Cook | 23 May 2014 | Comments

tags: gender dysphoria, gender reassignment, reproductive revolution

British children as young as nine are eligible to board the train for a sex reassignment surgery, according to the Mail on Sunday.

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Australia recognises “non-specific sex” as legal option

Michael Cook | 05 April 2014 | Comments

tags: Australia, gender, gender identity, reproductive revolution

The Australian High Court has ruled that people can be officially recognised as a non-specific sex.

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Blow to Germany’s animal lovers

Michael Cook | 07 December 2012 | Comments

tags: animal rights, bestiality, human dignity, natural law, reproductive revolution

Germany is a very big blip on the radar of BioEdge’s Reproductive Revolution Weirdness Watch this week.

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State to pay for Massachusetts murderer’s sex change

Michael Cook | 07 September 2012 | Comments

tags: gender reassignment, reproductive revolution

A Massachusetts man with gender identity disorder murdered his wife in 1990 when she discovered him wearing her clothes. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole in 1992. However, the disorder did not disappear and he requested a sex change operation. After years of stonewalling by prison officials, a judge has ordered the state to pay for the operation.

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British woman who had sex change has given birth

Jared Yee | 17 February 2012 | Comments

tags: gender identity, gender reassignment, reproductive revolution

The distinction between sex and gender has become even more complex, with Britain’s first transgendered “male mother” believed to have given birth.

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Are Indian doctors turning girls into boys for parents who wanted a son?

Michael Cook | 09 July 2011 | Comments

tags: gender ratio, India, reproductive revolution, sex selection, son preference

If you are looking for lurid consequences of India’s worsening gender ratio, look no longer. Millions of girls are missing, aborted because of a deeply entrenched preference for sons. The consequence shortage of women has reportedly led to practices like kidnapping brides and wife-sharing. But in the north India city of Indore in Madhya Pradesh something even more bizarre is happening, according to the Hindustan Times. Couples are paying surgeons to do sex change operations on infant girls to tr

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Woman had 2 children after secretly taking ex-husband’s frozen sperm

Jared Yee | 04 June 2011 | Comments

tags: human drama, IVF, reproductive revolution, UK

A father was forced to pay his ex-wife £100,000 so that she can raise two children she conceived via IVF without his consent after secretly taking his frozen sperm.

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IVF mix-up mum to have twins with a surrogate

Michael Cook | 09 April 2011 | Comments

tags: human drama, reproductive revolution, surrogacy

Another adventure in the Wild West of assisted reproduction. Carolyn and Sean Savage, of Ohio, had two boys conceived naturally and an IVF daughter. But they wanted another child and resorted again to IVF. In 2009 Carolyn learned that the IVF baby she was carrying was not hers.

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“What on earth have I done?” asks 58-year-old mother of IVF twins

Michael Cook | 26 March 2011 | Comments

tags: human drama, ivf, reproductive revolution

Another chapter in the reproductive revolution from the UK: 58-year-old Carole Hobson, a single woman, is now the mother of twins. Not exactly her twins. The biological mother is a 24-year-old Indian woman organised by a Mumbai IVF clinic; the biological father a Scandinavian engineer.

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72 not out, and feeling broody

Michael Cook | 21 November 2010 | Comments

tags: human drama, IVF, older mothers, reproductive revolution

Romanian woman considers a second child

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Court awards custody of Australian baby to four gay parents

Michael Cook | 11 September 2010 | Comments

tags: human drama, IVF, reproductive revolution, same-sex parenting

All fine people, says Judge

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Surrogate: I will give birth to bin Laden’s grandchild

Jared Yee | 07 July 2010 | Comments

tags: human drama, reproductive revolution, surrogacy

Another story of tangled relationships

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A day in the life of a celebrity chef

Michael Cook | 04 June 2010 | Comments

tags: human drama, mercy killing, reproductive revolution

Weird combination of IVF and euthanasia

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Everything you wanted to know about OctoMom

Michael Cook | 21 November 2009 | Comments

tags: fetal reduction, IVF, reproductive revolution

Interview with New York Times Magazine

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Marriage of unwitting twins sparks IVF debate

Michael Cook | 17 January 2008 | Comments

tags: genetic parentage, genetic sexual attraction, incest, IVF, reproductive revolution, sperm donation

Brother and sister separated at birth and adopted out marry after “irresistible attraction”

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Chicago clinic creates diseased embryonic stem cells

Michael Cook | 11 June 2004 | Comments

tags: reproductive revolution

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