High court orders fertility clinic to release deceased man's records
A fertility clinic has been ordered to disclose records pertaining to the use of a dead patient's sperm to the personal representative of the patient's estate...
Suzi Denton is a volunteer writer at BioNews
by Suzi Denton
A fertility clinic has been ordered to disclose records pertaining to the use of a dead patient's sperm to the personal representative of the patient's estate...
by Suzi Denton
The COVID-19 pandemic is preventing many families expecting children through international surrogacy from being present for the birth, or from bringing their child home...
by Suzi Denton
At least six women and their families are suing a doctor for negligence and fraud, after they discovered that he had used his own sperm in their fertility treatment...
by Suzi Denton
A court in the United Arab Emirates has ruled that a woman whose husband had a child through surrogacy without her knowledge or consent, is not the child's mother...
by Suzi Denton
A pregnant surrogate has died at hospital in New Delhi, while a new surrogacy law awaits approval by the Indian Parliament...
by Suzi Denton
In his new book, Professor Dov Fox shines a light on the harms that are done to fertility patients, and the lack of protection which the law in the USA affords them...
by Suzi Denton
A married couple has been told that their daughter is ineligible for US citizenship despite the fact that they are both American citizens...
by Suzi Denton
A bill that proposes to lift the ban on commercial surrogacy in New York State was passed by the State Senate last week...
by Suzi Denton
Indiana has become the first US state to pass legislation making it a criminal offence for fertility doctors to use their own sperm in treatment without their patients’ prior knowledge and consent...
by Suzi Denton
An appeal court in Cleveland, Ohio, has ruled that a couple's embryos lost in a freezer-failure incident last year were not 'living persons', and should not therefore have been treated as patients rather than property...
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