In Vitro Fertilization

The Question I Want Everyone to Stop Asking

Selvaggia | Posted 05.16.2012

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Selvaggia

In my imagination, I always thought having a biological child or adopting one would equally fulfill the mother in me. Or at least that is what I thought until a few weeks ago.

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Teacher Fired From Catholic School For IVF Sets Up Church State Battle

AP | CHARLES WILSON | Posted 04.25.2012

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INDIANAPOLIS -- An Indiana teacher who says she was fired from a Roman Catholic school for using in vitro fertilization to try to get pregnant is suin...

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Suburban Fertility Clinic OKed Amid 'Personhood' Protests

Posted 04.06.2012

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The Naperville City Council on Tuesday approved the building of a clinic providing in vitro fertilization and other procedures in the west suburb's do...

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Making Babies The Gay Way

B.J. Epstein | Posted 05.08.2012

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B.J. Epstein

Perhaps if there were more children's books that dared to show LGBTQ people adopting, working with surrogates, going to sperm banks, or meeting co-parents, there would be more understanding about what it means to make and raise babies in non-traditional ways.

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Women Aren't The Only Ones Investing In In Vitro

The Wall Street Journal | Posted 02.24.2012

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Julie Barth's prayers were answered when a doctor in Crystal Lake, Ill., told her in vitro fertilization might get her pregnant. But he didn't stop...

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We Must Regulate Reproductive Technology

S. Lochlann Jain | Posted 04.24.2012

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S. Lochlann Jain

The fetuses created by IVF will ideally become healthy people. But the IVF industry needs federal oversight to ensure that the children produced have the maximum chance of growing up to be healthy adults.

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5 Tips For People Of Faith Considering Reproductive Technology

Ellen Painter Dollar | Posted 04.15.2012

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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.

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Catherine Pearson

With IVF, Two Eggs Are Good, Three Too Many, Study Shows

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine Pearson | Posted 01.18.2012

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Women undergoing in vitro fertilization should never have more than two embryos implanted, according to a new study out of the UK. It finds that those...

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Israel's In Vitro Baby Boom

The Huffington Post | Brenna Cammeron | Posted 09.17.2011

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For most childless couples, in vitro fertilization is an effective but prohibitively expensive road to motherhood that dangles tantalizingly out of re...

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Swedish Town Mulling Fertility Treatments For New Residents

TheLocal.se | David Moye | Posted 11.15.2011

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A Swedish town wants to boost its population in a big way, and one solution may be offering helping to cover the costs of fertility treatments or adop...

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Woman Gives Birth To Sextuplets

Huffington Post | Neil Katz | Posted 08.07.2011

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They say good things come in threes, but Stacey Carey's "miracle" came in sixes. The Pennsylvania mom and husband Brendan welcomed sextuplets into ...

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Continuing Research On Three-Parent IVF

Posted 06.19.2011

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More research is needed before "3-parent" fertility treatments designed to prevent some incurable inherited diseases can be considered safe for clin...

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Sperm On Steroids: 6 Inches Long and Raring to Fertilize

healthland.time.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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Call them sperm on steroids, these 6-inch (15 cm) long wriggly organisms that Australian fertility specialists have magnified more than 7000x to help ...

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Brazil Approves In Vitro Fertilization For Gay Couples

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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'Who Made Me?' The Ethical Issues That IVF Families Face

Robert Klitzman, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

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Robert Klitzman, M.D.

One of the most difficult quandaries that has recently emerged from the advent of in vitro fertilization is whether to tell children born through IVF, using a third party's egg or sperm, that they were created in this way.

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More Tries Isn't Always Better With In Vitro Fertilization

AP | ALICIA CHANG | Posted 05.25.2011

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LOS ANGELES — More tries aren't necessarily better when it comes to in vitro fertilization. New research found that about 1 in 3 women had a bab...

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A Controversial Nobel Prize For In Vitro Fertilization

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

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David Katz, M.D.

I find myself somewhat ambivalent about Edwards's Nobel Prize for in vitro fertilization, but for reasons diametrically opposed to those of the Vatican. My issues are with the babies that ARE born.

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Vatican: Nobel Win For Robert Edwards, IVF Pioneer, Is 'Completely Out Of Order'

BBC News | Posted 05.25.2011

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A Vatican official has said the awarding of the Nobel Prize for Medicine to British IVF pioneer Robert Edwards is "completely out of order."...

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Test-Tube Kids And Cancer Link: Method Unlikely A Cause

AP | LINDSEY TANNER | Posted 11.17.2011

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CHICAGO — For the first time, a large study suggests a higher rate of childhood cancer among test-tube babies, but researchers say the reason pr...

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Heavy Women's Miscarriage Risk Higher After IVF

AP | MARIA CHENG | Posted 11.17.2011

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LONDON — Overweight women have a much higher risk of a miscarriage after having in-vitro fertilization compared with slim women, new research sa...

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Facebook Fairytales Come True

Emily Liebert | Posted 11.17.2011

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Emily Liebert

With hundreds of millions of users forming a vast web of personal and professional connections, I reasoned, there must be something good resulting. Turns out, I was right.

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Sexism and the Price of Eggs

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 11.17.2011

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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.

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Secrets of Fertility

Dr. Maoshing Ni | Posted 11.17.2011

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Dr. Maoshing Ni

According to Chinese medicine, seasons really do affect fertility. Chinese medicine looks to the energetic cycles of the universe for health answers; the female and male energies rise and fall throughout the year.

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Jennifer Lopez: I Would Never Have In Vitro, I'm 'Hyper J Lo' Now

Posted 05.25.2011

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Jennifer Lopez graces to the February cover or Elle Magazine, and inside the mother of says she would never have in vitro. Lopez, 40, gave birth to fr...

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Carolyn Savage, Woman Who Was Accidentally Implanted With Another Woman's Embryo, Goes On Today Show (Video)

Posted 05.25.2011

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Carolyn Savage, an Ohio woman who gave birth to another couple's child due to a medical error, went on NBC's Today Show Wednesday morning. After us...

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