Showing posts with label reproduction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reproduction. Show all posts
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...
Tuesday, April 2, 2024

Children in China

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 The NYT ran an interactive story on China's change in family policy, from one child (from 1979 to 2015), to two and now to three. At th...
Wednesday, March 6, 2024

France amends its constitution to protect access to abortion

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  The decision of the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v.Wade and end a constitutional right to abortion in the U.S. prompted France to am...
Thursday, February 29, 2024

Education (and age) versus fertility in the U.S. marriage market

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  Markets change over time, including the marriage market.  American marriages have become more assortative in recent years, and it appears ...
Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Frozen embryos are children: Alabama Supreme Court ruling

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  The Washington Post has the story, which emphasizes the implications this ruling could have on in-vitro fertilization (IVF).  That would a...
Friday, February 16, 2024

Abortion bans in some states lead to late stage abortions in others

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Obstacles to abortions in some states mean that some people seeking to end a pregnancy will have a late stage abortion where it's legal-...
Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Pope Francis calls for a ban on surrogacy

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 The Catholic Church has long opposed in-vitro fertilization (IVF), one of the technological tools that allows surrogacy, on the grounds tha...
Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Gamete exchange

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  Here's a cheerful story of peer to peer assisted reproduction, from the Washington Post: Two couples couldn’t have babies, so they hel...
Tuesday, September 12, 2023

New technologies and new controversies: using CRISPR to edit human genes

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 New technologies are often accompanied by new repugnancies, i.e. by controversies about their moral appropriateness. The future of using CR...
Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Egg freezing in China and Hong Kong

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 The FT has the story: China’s fertility treatment rules push single women to Hong Kong Beijing faces calls to ease access to egg freezing a...