Should Kids Be Conceived After a Parent Dies?
It's time for some legal limits on posthumous reproduction.

by Arthur L. Caplan

Media's Cooing Over Sextuplets is a Disservice
News outlets go gaga and forget to report the downside of megamultiples.
by Arthur L. Caplan

Blind Faith on Sex-Ed Approach Puts Kids at Risk
Bullheaded Bush administration puts abstinence ideology before lives.
by Arthur L. Caplan

'Egg Rebate' Cracks Open an Ethics Mess
When automobile sales get sluggish, as they are these days for many U.S. automakers, Detroit often turns to rebates. But is what works for cars right for human eggs?
by Arthur L. Caplan

How old is too old to have a baby?
Fertility clinics should implement age limits
by Arthur L. Caplan

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Women Don't Need to Risk Their Health With Egg Donation
Nov 19 (Western Australia Today) Three years after embryonic stem cell cloning was legalised in Australia, advocates are finally facing up to the critical issue: where will all the eggs come from? Cloning or somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) is impossible without a continuous – and large - supply of women's ova. In South Korea, the now discredited Dr Hwang used 2061 eggs taken from 169 women and failed to produce a single cloned embryo.

Family becomes first in UK to freeze baby's umbilical cord so stem cells can be harvested if they fall ill
Nov 03 (Daily Mail Online) A family from Cheshire have become the first in the country to have tissue from their baby's umbilical cord frozen as a health-insurance in case they become sick.

Judge Bars Restrictive Oklahoma Abortion Law Requiring Online Posting of Patient Data
Oct 27 (Los Angeles Times) While Californians mull whether a fetus is a person, a state judge has temporarily blocked enforcement of a new Oklahoma law that would require doctors to report detailed information about abortion patients, which would then be posted online.

A Step Forward for Genetic Embryo Screening
Oct 27 (Times Online) Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), which screens embryos for inherited disease so that only unaffected ones are implanted in the womb, has helped hundreds of families to have healthy children since it was developed in the late 1980s by a team led by Professor Alan Handyside of Hammersmith Hospital.

Doctor who treated octuplets mom ejected from Society of Reproductive Medicine
Oct 22 (Los Angeles Times) A spokesman for the professional group said Monday that Dr. Michael Kamrava exhibited a 'pattern of behavior that is detrimental to our field.' The group has also tightened implantation guidelines.

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