On July 25, 1978, Louise Brown, the first test tube baby, was born. This rush to IVF clinics comes at a time when the fertility rate has seen a significant decline in India. There are many factors such as lifestyle choices and biological factors which contribute to a decline in fertility rates in India. Indian women, for instance, experience an …
Katherine Dawson was always comfortable with her origin story. "I assumed he'd be a nice, generous, healthy bloke because that's what they advertise," Katherine says of IVF clinics. "I think that there were seven including his own," Katherine says of her donor father. "The clinics will only send a letter to my siblings' parents … to an address that's potentially …
Following the chaos that unfolded when Alabama’s Supreme Court ruled frozen embryos are legally children, many are watching a bill in Iowa closely as its passage could impact in vitro fertilization clinics in the state, too. On Thursday, Iowa House Republicans approved a bill that would criminalize the death of an “unborn person.” Currently the state Iaw has penalties for …
Two weeks after facing a backlash when Alabama’s Supreme Court ruled frozen embryos are legally children, Alabama lawmakers scrambled to put together a new legislation to help protect in vitro fertilization clinics from civil lawsuits and criminal prosecution. But last week, Alabama legislators in both chambers passed bills that would give civil and criminal immunity related to IVF providers or …
The Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed the Assisted Reproductive Technology Bill, 2020, to regulate assisted reproductive technology services such as in-vitro fertilization centres, sperm or egg banks etc that have mushroomed across the country. Union health minister Mansukh Mandaviya speaks on the Assisted Reproductive Technology Bill, 2020, in Lok Sabha during ongoing winter session of Parliament on Wednesday. Responding to …
"I would describe the experience as feeling quite unprepared, isolated and alone, to be honest. In a press conference on Monday when the site first launched, he said the website would prevent Australians struggling with infertility from "flying blind" when choosing a clinic. Georgina Chambers, director of the National Perinatal Epidemiology and Statistics Unit at the University of NSW, who …