Showing posts with label reproduction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reproduction. Show all posts
Thursday, August 27, 2026

Reverse fertility tourism--Americans traveling abroad for more affordable IVF

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The US is a destination for people needing assisted reproductive technology (ART) to have a child, often because it is unavailable in their ...
Monday, August 24, 2026

Abortion opponents seeking to ban surrogacy in Texas (and supporters are thinking about more regulation)

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 Human reproduction gives rise to lots of different controversies, with the partisans not always aligned across issues the ways you might su...
Monday, August 3, 2026

Congressional Republicans find IVF repugnant (by stealth, in an election year)

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 Public rhetoric and parliamentary maneuvering display opposite positions  on IVF  in an election year. G.O.P. Kills Bid to Expand I.V.F. Ac...
Wednesday, July 22, 2026

Surrogacy: a political scandal in Germany, and fertility tourism around the world

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 Here's a story in the NYT, covering an uproar that's been in the German newspapers for a week or so now.  A leader in the German go...
Wednesday, June 10, 2026

Will cloned horses end progress in horse breeding?

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  The WSJ has the story:  More Top Horses Are Being Cloned, Rattling the World of Equestrian Sports "Exact genetic replicas of successf...
Sunday, May 3, 2026

Federal Appeals Court Temporarily Halts Abortion Pill Access by Mail, Appeal to SCOTUS

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 Is the state of Louisiana harmed if women living there can receive abortion pills by mail? Federal Appeals Court Temporarily Halts Abortion...
Monday, April 13, 2026

Complex tragedy in a headline: Israeli Court Lets Parents of Gaza Hostage Killed by IDF Fire to Use Son's Sperm for IVF

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 Rarely does a headline capture so much of a complicated tragedy.  Read it at least twice. From Haaretz:  Israeli Court Lets Parents of Gaza...
Saturday, March 7, 2026

Work from home increases fertility

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  Here's a recent paper showing that work from home (WFH) increases fertility, expecially if both couples work from home.  The proposed ...
Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Taxation as a disincentive to contraception in China

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 The PRC believes in economic incentives and disincentives. (But they also have other arrows in their quiver...) China to hike tax on condom...
Sunday, September 28, 2025

Remote work and reproduction

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 Here's a recent paper indicating that work from home (WFH) may increase fertility, particularly when both partners in a household work ...
Tuesday, September 23, 2025

The Downside of Fertility by Claudia Goldin---Dads versus duds

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 Here's the latest from Claudia Goldin, on dads versus duds.   The Downside of Fertility   by Claudia Goldin, NBER Working Paper 34268, ...
Sunday, May 25, 2025

Thinking about the ethical, legal and political relationships between IVF and abortion (in JAMA)

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Some people support both IVF and abortion (women's right to choose) and some people oppose both (embryos are people), but many oppose ab...
Saturday, April 26, 2025

Prolific sperm donation and incest risk in the Netherlands

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 The Guardian has the story: ‘Medical calamity’: dozens of Dutch sperm donors fathered at least 25 children .  Discovery that clinics have b...
Wednesday, February 5, 2025

States' fights over abortions: New York moves to shield doctors from prosecution in states with abortion bans

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  Not all politics is Federal, even in these unprecedented times. The NYT has the story: N.Y. Moves to Shield Doctors Who Send Abortion Pill...
Monday, December 2, 2024

IVF mistakes that would have confounded King Solomon

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 IVF helps many people welcome children into their families, but also makes possible mistakes that would have confounded King Solomon. Haare...
Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Abortion on the ballot

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 And in other news, we're in new territory for the American experiment.  This will surely have effects on controversial markets (among o...
Monday, August 19, 2024

Uterus transplants--update

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Reproductive options continue to grow... Here's an update on transplantation of the uterus. Uterus Transplant in Women With Absolute Ute...
Tuesday, July 16, 2024

Surrogacy in Israel

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In Israel, where commercial surrogacy is legal, surrogates are more and more coming from educated and religious communities.  Haaretz has th...
Sunday, May 19, 2024

IVF for sex selection: legal in the U.S

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Slate has the story: The Parents Who Want Daughters—and Daughters Only. Sex selection with IVF is banned in much of the world. Not in the U....
Friday, May 17, 2024

Sperm donation from Denmark to the UK and elsewhere

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  The Daily Mail has the story: 'They invaded us once by boat and now they're doing it with sperm!' Why hundreds of British wome...