Artificial Insemination

The Birds And The Bees, With A Twist

Cheryl Dumesnil | Posted 05.09.2012

Cheryl Dumesnil

Recently my wife and I realized that while our older son could recite the egg/sperm/donor story at age 2, we're not sure what our younger son knows about his beginnings. We decided to wait for a teachable moment to arrive, which happened one morning last week.

5 Tips For People Of Faith Considering Reproductive Technology

Ellen Painter Dollar | Posted 04.15.2012

Ellen Painter Dollar

The technologies available to people who want to have a baby but struggle to conceive naturally are many and growing, raising many vexing questions for people who want to make decisions in line with their religious faith.

Teacher Fired For Having Artificial Insemination

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 12.28.2011

Christa Dias, former technology coordinator at Holy Family and St. Lawrence Catholic schools in Cincinnati, Ohio, claims she was fired for becoming pr...

Why Can't Anyone Get Pregnant?

Leslie Goldman | Posted 02.21.2012

Leslie Goldman

For perhaps the only time in our lives, we had found ourselves in the same position as a Kardashian.

Children Who Glow? A Jewish Law Perspective On Reproductive Ethics

Mary J. Loftus | Posted 11.24.2011

Mary J. Loftus

The centrally important question under Jewish law would be: Have we produced another healthy or healthier child?

Laws to Catch Up With Science

Diane Dimond | Posted 11.21.2011

Diane Dimond

Fooling with Mother Nature rarely works. Children born of sperm donors are realizing they may have dozens of siblings they'll never know. Donors are ...

A Single Lesbian's Quest for Motherhood

Staceyann Chin | Posted 10.11.2011

Staceyann Chin

One day I looked up from the jaded wreckage of my umpteenth breakup and was deafened by the horror of my ticking biological clock. I was 35 and living a solitary life in a one-bedroom apartment in New York City.

Dead Moms = Better Dads?

Vicki Larson | Posted 05.25.2011

Vicki Larson

There was a lot of excitement two years ago when Clive Owen's movie The Boys Are Back, based on the true story of a single dad, was released. A lot of...

UK Men Charged In Illegal Sperm Donor Case

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

LONDON — Two British men made a profit by illegally running a Web site that made sperm available to women who want to conceive, prosecutors alleged ...

Open Adoption Advocate Annette Baran Dead: Author Dies At 83

Los Angeles Times | Valerie J. Nelson | Posted 05.25.2011

Living with a secret is psychologically destructive -- that concept was nearly an anthem for Annette Baran, a clinical social worker and psychotherapi...

Sexism and the Price of Eggs

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 11.17.2011

Jacob M. Appel

The most legitimate concern raised by supporters of caps on payments to egg "donors" is that charging fair value might price some would-be parents out of the marketplace.

Turkey Bans Trips Abroad For Artificial Insemination

BBC News | Posted 05.25.2011

A new law passed in Turkey has made it a criminal offence for a woman to go abroad and get pregnant via artificial insemination. ...

Dr. Ben Ramaley: Fertility Doctor Accused Of Using Own Sperm To Artificially Inseminate Woman

Posted 05.25.2011

Dr. Ben Ramaley, a Greenwich, Connecticut fertility doctor stands accused of not only impregnating a patient with the wrong man's sperm, but --in a sh...