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.

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

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".

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.

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

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.

Równy dostęp do leczenia niepłodności i zabezpieczania płodności dla wszystkich kobiet!

Każdy człowiek, niezależnie od swojej sytuacji osobistej czy życiowej ma prawo do równego dostępu do leczenia oraz do realizacji marzenia o rodzicielstwie. Wszyscy mamy w swoim otoczeniu wspaniałe, samodzielne mamy, które każdego dnia pokazują siłę i miłość. Niestety, obecne przepisy ustawy o leczeniu niepłodności w Polsce są dyskryminujące i nie dopuszczają do leczenia kobiet nie pozosta

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Entre Nous - Sperm and egg donors: Lifting anonymity in France

In this edition, we find out why France is destroying its old stock of donor sperm, despite long waiting lists for help conceiving a child through IVF and other fertility treatments. Under the nation's latest bioethics law, anonymous sperm donations are no longer allowed. We find out why and how the need for such donations has jumped.