- It’s infertility awareness week in Canada. More Canadians are looking to the U.S. for egg donors.
- One in five Irish couples experience infertility.
- In the U.K.: A good summary of the debate over the HFEA. Do embryos need fathers? Despite a recent defeat, the abortion debate is heating up. Is Britain “one step closer to designer babies?” How about cybrids?
- Gordon Brown defends embryo research: a “moral endeavor” that can save the “lives of millions.”
- Simon Jenkins: “MPs should stop meddling in how people choose to plan and protect their families. They have enough trouble with their own.”
- South Korea bans cross-species cloning. Disgraced stem cell researcher Hwang Woo-Suk will clone dogs for cash.
Conceptions
May 21, 2008