Pride: In Your Genes?
A new "gay gene" study and a strange float at the Pride Parade present a context to reflect on genetic determinism and the meaning of pride.
View ArticleThe Dangers of Fetal Engineering
A recent study considers the troubling off-label use of a risky drug in pregnant women whose baby girls may not be born with normal-looking genitals.
View ArticleFeel-Good Surrogacy?: The New Normal Tackles ARTs with Lighthearted Banter
The New Normal showcases a lighthearted vision of surrogacy and gay parenthood that has moving moments, but largely misses the mark.
View ArticleComplete Video Now Online for Eugenics in California: A Legacy of the Past?
A video recording of a public event at Berkeley School of Law about the legacies of eugenics in California.
View ArticleIs This Informal Surrogacy or Exploitation?
A bizarre situation in Texas is either the result of a horrible misunderstanding about an informal, unpaid surrogacy or an appalling case of exploitation.
View ArticleSurrogacy, Now Big Business in Southern California
A promotional video used for gay couples in
View ArticleLaw Lags as Aussies Employ Overseas Surrogate Mums
Though surrogacy is illegal in Australia, a child is born in India to Australian parents every day. What are the legal and ethical dimensions of hiring a woman from another country as a surrogate?
View ArticleNew Calif. Law Eases Sperm Donor Testing Rules
California women who want to get pregnant using sperm from a donor they know should find the process easier and less expensive next year, thanks to a new state law.
View ArticleExclusive: Rise in Number of Couples Seeking 'Wombs for Hire' Abroad
The number of British couples formally registering children born to foreign surrogates has nearly trebled in five years, raising concerns that poor women in developing countries are being exploited by...
View ArticleSweden Ends Forced Sterilisation of Sex Change Patients
Sweden will no longer require sex change patients to be sterilised, ruling that the practice is unconstitutional and in violation of the European Convention on Human Rights.
View ArticleHuman Rights and Sweden
The Swedish law that required transgender people to undergo sterilization before they could be legally recognized as another gender has been recognized as a violation of human rights.
View ArticleFrench Gay Marriage Plans Stir Parenthood Debate
The president's promise to legalize gay marriage was seen as relatively uncontroversial when it first came up, but the news reopened a raw national debate on fertility treatments, surrogacy and adoption.
View ArticlePromoting the Civil Rights of Children Born With Variations of Sex Anatomy
The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture calls upon all States to repeal any law allowing intrusive and irreversible treatments, including forced genital-normalizing surgery, involuntary sterilization, and...
View ArticleA Call for International Prohibition of Forced Genital-Normalizing Surgery...
A new report from the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture focuses on human rights abuses in health-care settings, and bolsters LGBTQI activists in their fight against involuntary...
View ArticleSurrogacy Laws May Leave Australian Babies Stateless
Australian babies may be left stateless and unable to leave India as a result of changes to the country's commercial surrogacy laws.
View ArticleSurrogacy's Painful Path to Parenthood
Reports of abortions, questionable medical bills and baby mix-ups are increasingly emerging from overseas destinations where commercial surrogacy is legal.
View ArticleCloning, De-extinction, and Possibly Human Applications
Synthetic biologist and entrepreneur George Church and cloning expert Robert Lanza are starting a company to change animal reproduction
View ArticleShifts in the Global Body Market: Access or Exploitation?
PlanetHospital claims that new surrogacy regulations in India have ruined a
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