'The Tesla CEO and JD Vance want American families to have more babies. But is their appropriation of reproductive technologies a revival of eugenics?'

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united-states/69617/elon-musk-ivf-obsession

"Pro-life campaigners, though, believe that life begins at conception. By their logic, frozen embryos are, effectively, abandoned children."

#USA #eugenics #IVF #ElonMusk #JDVance

Elon Musk’s IVF obsession

The Tesla CEO and JD Vance want American families to have more babies. But is their appropriation of reproductive technologies a revival of eugenics?

Explore the top 3 fertility treatments: IVF, IUI, and fertility drugs. Compare 2025 success rates, understand the costs in India, and find the best option for you.
https://healthtipsfrommrmed.weebly.com/blog/top-3-fertility-treatment-methods-success-rates-costs

#FertilityTreatment #IVF #IUI #FertilityDrugs #InfertilityIndia #SuccessRates #FertilityJourney #AssistedReproduction

Top 3 Fertility Treatment Methods: Success Rates & Costs

If you’ve been trying to conceive for a while without success, you’re not alone. Fertility problems affect millions of couples worldwide, making conception more challenging than expected. But the...

Best Health Care Tips
@mvario @_L1vY_ This is why I never put any stock in his blathering about making #IVF free. Sure, it will be free because it won’t exist. And I know that there were those who voted for him based on that so-called promise.

"A new Kansas law and a Florida bill outline policies backed by abortion opponents that critics see as moves toward giving embryos and fetuses the same rights as the women carrying them."

https://apnews.com/article/florida-kansas-abortion-fetal-personhood-reproductive-rights-91672d650d79c596efdc8030bd975aca

#healthcare #ReproductiveHealth #ReproductiveJustice #pregnancy #abortion #ChildSupport #WrongfulDeath #fertility #IVF #lawsuits #courts #USlaw

States advance fetal rights measures that critics warn will pave a path for outlawing abortions

A new Kansas law and a bill advancing in Florida enact policies backed by abortion opponents that critics see as moves toward giving embryos and fetuses the same rights as the women carrying them. Republican supermajorities in the Kansas Legislature on Thursday overrode the Democratic governor’s veto of a bill to require that child support payments cover embryos and fetuses and to grant an income tax break for a pregnancy or stillbirth. In Florida, lawmakers are pushing a proposal that would give parents the ability to seek civil damages for the wrongful death of an embryo or fetus.

AP News
Rogue doctors stole one woman’s eggs to get another patient pregnant. What happened next is an unlikely tale of friendship against the odds https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/12/fertility-clinic-doctors-stole-womans-eggs-to-get-another-pregnant #Parentsandparenting #Fertilityproblems #Health&wellbeing #Lifeandstyle #Pregnancy #Society #Health #Family #IVF
Rogue doctors stole one woman’s eggs to get another patient pregnant. What happened next is an unlikely tale of friendship against the odds

When it emerged that a fertility clinic had made one woman pregnant with another’s baby, Renée Ballou and Carole LieberWilkins were advised to ‘lawyer up’. Instead they did something extraordinary – even as one raised the other’s biological child

The Guardian
Australian Woman Unintentionally Delivers Baby for Different Parents Due to IVF Error #World #Australian #Baby #delivers #due #Error #IVF #parents #Unintentionally #woman 
https://tinyurl.com/26xomsql
Australian Woman Unintentionally Delivers Baby For Different Parents Due To IVF Error - Axadle | Stay Informed With Horn Of Africa Headlines

An Australian woman has given birth to a stranger's baby after a fertility doctor accidentally implanted the wrong embryo, the clinic owner said in its apology letter while blaming the mix-up on "human error".

Axadle | Stay Informed with Horn of Africa Headlines

Schock in Australien! 😲 Eine IVF-Klinik hat einer Frau versehentlich den Embryo einer anderen Patientin eingepflanzt. Der Irrtum flog erst nach der Geburt 2024 auf. Rechtliche Fragen zum Sorgerecht sind nun offen. #IVF #FehlerImKrankenhaus #Australien #newz

https://www.n-tv.de/panorama/Australische-Klinik-pflanzt-Frau-falschen-Embryo-ein-article25697740.html

Ethischer Albtraum: Australische Klinik pflanzt Frau falschen Embryo ein

Einer australischen IVF-Klinik unterläuft ein fataler Fehler. Einer Frau wird daraufhin versehentlich der Embryo einer anderen Patientin eingepflanzt. Das genetisch nicht verwandte Kind wird 2024 geboren, doch erst jetzt fliegt der Irrtum auf.

n-tv NACHRICHTEN
Una revisión muy interesante sobre el tema de la tesis doctoral de Marta Reguera en nuestro grupo: las técnicas de reemplazo mitocondrial.
https://academic.oup.com/humrep/article/40/4/585/8078026
#MTR #AUGMENT #mitochondria #oocyte #IVF
Trump administration eviscerates maternal and child health programs

Alarm over ‘the health of the nation’s children’ follows federal workforce cuts by health secretary RFK Jr

The Guardian

"The elimination of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Assisted Reproductive Technology Surveillance team — a group of six epidemiologists, data analysts and researchers — shocked public health experts and IVF advocates who said they had felt encouraged by President Donald Trump’s comments supporting access to the infertility treatment."

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/cdcs-ivf-team-gutted-even-trump-calls-fertilization-president-rcna199261

#healthcare #ReproductiveHealth #ReproductiveJustice #pregnancy #ivf #fertility #infertility #CDC #DOGE #USpol

CDC's IVF team gutted even as Trump calls himself the 'fertilization president'

A team that tracked how well in vitro fertilization worked across the U.S. was abruptly cut Tuesday as part of the sweeping layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services.

NBC News