Most people have babies, they don’t win them. But some couples need help to have kids and assisted reproductive technology can be costly and, therefore, inaccessible. Recently, an Ottawa radio station gave couples hope with their “Win A Baby!” contest. You may not literally win a baby, but one couple wins a chance at having ...
Homosexual, heterosexual, bisexual…donorsexual. What the hell is that? Some men find joy in impregnating a woman so much that they will give their sperm away for free to many women, promising to reveal their identities and be involved in their future children’s lives. Sounds like a pretty sweet deal if you need help in that area, considering ...
Doctors are discussing whether fat women deserve to have babies. Specifically, they are deciding whether obese patients should have access to fertility treatments. “Get off your 50 pounds or so and exercise and then see where your fertility is at,” said Beverly Hanck, executive director of the Infertility Awareness Association of Canada. Obese women, even if ...
Knowing the law gives you the best tool to bend it but it doesn’t ensure you’ll get away clean, especially when your shady line of business means making big bucks from people’s desperation. Theresa Erickson, a lawyer specializing in reproductive law, pleaded guilty to wire fraud for faking surrogacy documents she presented to the San ...
Infertility is often a problem mostly associated with women but a new studyhas just uncovered a genetic mutation in men that lowers their partners’ chances of giving birth by 30 percent. Researchers from the University of California, Davis have found that around one in every 250 men has a genetic mutation that stops the production ...
Usually when we hear the term “sex selection” we think of the preference for little boys that has created a problematic gender imbalance in certain countries. But sex selection is happening in places other than China and India. One American couple wanted a girl so bad that they were willing to take out a loan ...
Susi Henson, 33, just wants to have a baby of her own. This could be near impossible, though, due to polycystic ovarian syndrome that has formed cycts on her ovaries, not allowing her to conceive naturally without IVF treatment. So, she and her husband, 40, applied for the miracle treatment and waited six months for ...
The age-old cliché about the beauty of womanhood is having the gift of life. Eva Ottosson, 56, will take that idea to the next level by giving her life-making gifts to her daughter Sara, 25, who was born without reproductive organs. The womb transplant could take place as early as next spring in Gothenburg, Sweden. ...
A lesbian couple has started the UK’s first fertility clinic exclusively for homosexual couples. It will help match parents with sperm donors, egg donors and surrogates. “We wanted to set up something where we would act as a go-between and where couples could meet potential donors face-to-face to work out how they would work things ...
Having trouble getting pregnant? Why not invite a clown into your bedroom? A study in an IVF fertility centre looked at women who had seen a clown performance shortly after embryo transfer and those who hadn’t, and found that there was double the chance of conception for those who’d had their funny bones tickled. What ...
My attention was drawn this week to an article on the resurgence of the market for men’s underwear. It...
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