June 12, 2008
From the San Francisco Chronicle: “I don’t have a dad. I have a donor.”–One boy to another – do donors get ties on Father’s Day? – overheard in a kindergarten class by T.A. Francis (H/T: Wesley Smith)(Photo by Flickr user sciondriver [CC])
June 12, 2008
Amazing. Scientists in Belgium have just captured images of human ovulation occuring on camera–the “best ever” taken according to New Scientist–and it was all completely by accident: “The release of the oocyte from the ovary is a crucial event in human reproduction,” says Jacques Donnez at the...
June 10, 2008
The New York Times has a story today about how to cope in a “fertile” world. It focuses on Pamela Tsigdinos, one of the bloggers who I interviewed for this piece. There’s also a great feature, “The Voices of Infertility,” which includes video clips of women (where are the men?) talking about their...
June 9, 2008
I have a review in yesterday’s Washington Times about the latest report from the Mommy Wars, Amy Richards’s Opting In: Having a Child Without Losing Yourself. In the review, I ask whether the term “feminist mom” is an oxymoron and look at the complicated relationship between feminism and the biological clock:...
June 9, 2008
One baby, two mothers: Cure or curse? New York might pay women for eggs for stem cell research. Double Trouble: Massachusetts has the highest rate of twin births in the nation. Cloning the dead. Infertility: The lesson that came too late. China to provide IVF and other medical procedures to parents who lost...
June 2, 2008
“I think too often we’ve seen our job as simply to help someone achieve a pregnancy rather than looking at what happens to the child, the welfare of the child, what are the needs of the child. Those are issues we haven’t addressed properly.” — Dr. Charles Sims, the medical director of California Cryobank A...
June 1, 2008
Part Two of my interview with Jodi Panayotov. For Part One, click here. You talk about the “having-it-all” myth, the idea that women can combine a successful career with a family. Do you wish you had done things differently and pursued your career less determinedly? Do you think women should be encouraged to have children...
June 1, 2008
This month’s Conceptions interview subject is Aussie Jodi Panayotov, author of a new infertility memoir, In Vitro Fertility Goddess. (For the first interview, click here.) At age 37, Jodi was dismayed to find that her fertility had “packed up and left home without a forwarding address.” Never one to give up easily, she...
June 1, 2008
Is sex necessary? We need a 21st-century Solomon. A church contest for free fertility treatments. Should sex education teach about infertility? Enough about older mothers! What about the dangers of older fathers? Soldiers going to Iraq are banking their sperm. Sex selection: family balancing or a step...
May 27, 2008
I’m still recovering from the long holiday weekend, hence the non-existent posting of the last few days. Fortunately, other bloggers were not so lazy. Here are a few must-read posts: Jesse Reynolds takes a critical eye to Gordon Brown’s stem cell research letter: “Like so many writings advocating cloning-based stem cell...