Chinese state media reported Sunday on a new “five-year plan” to massively increase in vitro fertilization (IVF) to stave off demographic collapse. The Chinese government officially admitted over the weekend that birth rates have dropped beneath one percent, hitting a 43-year-low.
Researchers have conducted experiments on dozens of young Mexican women, paying them to be artificially inseminated and then extracting their embryos for analysis, NPR reported Thursday.
Irish Health Minister Simon Harris criticized a Catholic parish this week for publicizing on social media Church teaching against in vitro fertilization (IVF).
Tens of thousands of demonstrators assembled in front of the French senate building in Paris Sunday to protest a bill that would extend the use of in vitro fertilization to unmarried women and lesbians.
A survey has revealed that 44 per cent of British women aged 18 to 24 said they would consider freezing their eggs in the future, while a quarter of those in that age group also admit to being concerned about their fertility.
The New York Times on Wednesday found Chinese President Xi Jinping’s cult of personality and communist-nationalist ideology reaching even unto the sperm banks of Beijing, where a hospital sperm bank ran an online advertisement seeking donors who “have good ideological thoughts, love the socialist motherland, and support the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party.”
A New Jersey couple is one of the rising number of parents who are paying tens of thousands of dollars to guarantee a baby of a particular sex.
Braving rainy January weather, some 40,000 marchers took to the Paris streets Sunday to protest the legal killing of unborn infants through abortion.
A retired fertility doctor in Indiana is accused of using his own sperm to impregnate his patients and leading them to believe that the sperm came from an anonymous donor.
A couple in Texas is celebrating the impending birth of twins with a photo that speaks to the years they spent struggling with infertility.
The Jerusalem Post reports: Men who speak on their cellphone for more than one hour a day or keep their phone close to their groin risk significant damage to the quality of their sperm and their ability to father a
A new study from Reproductive Medicine Associates of New Jersey released this week National Infertility Awareness Week found that millennials are a little too cocky about waiting until their careers are established and they are in their thirties in order to have a child.
Italian designers Dolce and Gabbana on Monday have lashed back at Elton John’s call for a boycott of their brand, with Gabbana going so far as to call the signer-songwriter a “fascist.”
