- Is the embryo a “who?” In the City Journal, Peter Lawler reviews Embryo: A Defense of Human Life.
- Choosy mothers choose caesareans.
- Why should we think that the human genome is a once-and-for-all-finished, untamperable product? Ronald Green makes the case for designer babies, and Richard Hayes responds.
- In Ireland, a gay sperm donor loses access to his son.
- Tall Latinos, blue-eyed Aryans, handsome P Diddys — Medb Ruane looks through a sperm donor catalog and wonders about children’s rights.
- Kelly Hills wonders about the future of bioart. The XX Factor ladies discuss Aliza Shvarts’s now infamous art project. “Rancid with jargon, evasive with meaning, bursting with self-confidence”: Margaret Soltan dissects Shvarts’s artistic statement.
- Pregnancy comedy: Is it a trend? Jennifer Weiner’s latest novel features a “baby mama” and a whiplash plot twist. The Stirrup Queen looks at infertility on the big screen.
- Too young for this? “It’s really not fine choosing a sperm donor because your boyfriend doesn’t believe there’s a future for the two of you.”
- An Aussie sperm donor shortage?
- New treatment could double pregnancy rates with ART.
- Yale fertility expert finds genetic markers of an egg’s maturity.
Conceptions
April 21, 2008