REPRODUCTIVE REVOLUTION

First case report of transgender woman breastfeeding an infant

Michael Cook | 16 February 2018 | Comments

tags: reproductive revolution, transgender, transgender breastfeeding

Modest but functional lactation can be induced in transgender women

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If you want to be a surrogate, make sure you have a lawyer

Michael Cook | 28 October 2017 | Comments

tags: commercial surrogacy, reproductive revolution, surrogacy

An American woman almost loses her own child

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Enhancing the disadvantaged

Xavier Symons | 04 June 2016 | Comments

tags: bioenhancement, enhancement, moral enhancement, public policy, reproductive revolution

A new edition of the American Journal of Bioethics explores the possibility of remedying social disadvantage through cognitive enhancement.

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UK transgender woman wants to be both father and mother

Michael Cook | 03 October 2015 | Comments

tags: gender dysphoria, reproductive revolution, sex reassignment, UK

Another dispatch from the Wild West of assisted reproductive technology.

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Sperm from ovaries

Xavier Symons | 20 June 2015 | Comments

tags: reproductive revolution, sex determination

Japanese researchers have discovered a way to influence the sexual fate of germ cells in medaka (rice fish).

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What the world needs is young dads

Michael Cook | 05 June 2015 | Comments

tags: fatherhood, IVF, reproductive revolution, sperm banks

An article in the Journal of Medical Ethics questions the ethics of older fatherhood

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65-year-old German grandmother gives birth to quadruplets

Xavier Symons | 30 May 2015 | Comments

tags: Germany, IVF, reproductive revolution

A 65-year-old German woman with 13 children has given birth to quadruplets.

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A donor or a father?

Xavier Symons | 16 May 2015 | Comments

tags: law, paternity, reproductive revolution, sperm donation, US

A Virginia 'sperm donor' has been granted custody of his genetic child after deciding he wanted to be a father.

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British woman seeks to bear dead daughter’s child

Michael Cook | 09 May 2015 | Comments

tags: HFEA, IVF, reproductive revolution, UK

Frozen eggs to be fertilised with donor sperm.

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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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