February 14, 2009
Editor’s Note: “Conceptions,” Cheryl Miller’s New Atlantis blog on assisted reproductive technologies, has been discontinued. She is working on several other projects, but will occasionally write magazine essays and articles on ART—such as the article she has in the February 2009 issue of Reason:...
October 10, 2008
Is it wrong to want a deaf baby? Oregon court sees frozen embryos as property rights issue. The hidden health risks for the children of sperm donors. India: It’s time we had a law on surrogacy. How test tube babies changed the world. A new, safer test for Down syndrome. “Human evolution...
October 6, 2008
Los Angeles Times health reporter Shari Roan has a terrific series on “the politics of embryos.” (Bonus: One piece quotes The New Atlantis’s own Yuval Levin.) Six years of frustration and heartbreak. That’s how Gina Rathan recalls her attempts to become pregnant. Finally, she and her husband, Cheddi,...
October 3, 2008
“Women: Have your babies yesterday.” Looking for cheap IVF? 13 questions and answers about medical tourism. And just how expensive is IVF anyway? Biologists describe how an embryo attaches to the womb. The Bronx is the place to be for gay families. Feminism or folly? Women who conceive accidentally...
October 2, 2008
Part Two of my interview with Damian Adams. See Part One here.Have you been involved with any campaigns to fight for the rights of DC people? DA: I have been constantly writing to state and federal politicians. I have been in contact with the state regulatory authority. I have met with the federal attorney general. I have had...
October 2, 2008
Damian Adams was conceived through donor insemination in 1973 at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Adelaide, South Australia. He has been searching for his biological father for over five years, and keeps a blog, Donated Generation, on donor conception ethics and practices. An advocate for the rights of DC offspring, he has worked with the...
September 29, 2008
If you’re in the Toronto area, I will be speaking about my latest New Atlantis article, “Donated Generation,” at a symposium hosted by the Infertility Network. The event is this Saturday, October 4, 2008, at the Michener Institute. (Map and directions here.) There will be some great speakers: Olivia Montuschi,...
September 29, 2008
Your humble blogger has a review in the latest issue of the Weekly Standard about Donna Dickenson’s chilling exposé, Body Shopping: The Economy Fuelled by Flesh and Blood. In the piece, I discuss some of the more grisly practices of the global trade in human flesh and how we can rein in the worst of the body-snatchers: Body...
September 26, 2008
Pregnancy on the rise, abortion rates lowest in 30 years. How to stay sane with multiples. Designing the $100,000 baby. Remote control male birth control. Clay Aiken has a gayby. Israeli women are coming to the U.S. to donate eggs. “I’ve become more conservative since carrying a baby to...
September 25, 2008
Amy, a female blogger, is advertisting for a sperm donor via her blog. She claims to have 15 candidates. I’m guessing this must be a hoax since it is an incredibly bad idea otherwise (especially from someone who claims to be attending law school). Here’s her pitch: In less than two weeks, I will be ovulating, which as...