Artificial Reproduction

  Artificial Reproductive Technology   (40 KB)   
Artificial reproductive technology [ART , IVF and Surrogacy] now offer a multitude of choice/s. Few however ask "who cares for the welfare and emotional stability of relationships and the children created artificially using IVF assisted experimentation?"

  Comments relating to the Draft Code of Ethical Practice for the Propagation and Use of Approved Human Stem Cell Lines   (38 KB)   
We again face this threshold with the somewhat trite view that we are only going to experiment upon spare embryos excess to the requirements of IVF practices. Crossing this bridge is justified with the attitude that such embryonic human life is to die anyway. That self-same logic can equally be applied to both you and I– we are both to die anyway.

The Brave New World of Commodity Children   (31 KB)   
What a complex web we weave when we seek to artificially conceive?

'Two Dad' Babies on the Horizon ?   (31 KB)   
The spectre of a baby being born with DNA from two men has edged a little closer, with news from a scientific conference in Europe that embryonic stem calls can be manipulated in a lab to form the precursors of sperm and eggs.