Gamete donation in assisted human reproduction is a topic that generates considerable debate in bioethics, centered mainly on the discussion of how to accommodate the wishes of the intended parents while respecting the rights of the children, who should always remain the [...]
The use for nearly two decades of sperm from a single donor carrying a genetic mutation associated with an extreme risk of cancer has highlighted serious ethical and regulatory gaps in assisted reproduction. The case, which affects around 200 children [...]
The birth of a baby after 31 years of embryonic cryopreservation highlights the bioethical dilemma posed by thousands of human embryos left over from in vitro fertilization techniques that remain indefinitely frozen in centers around the world. This extraordinary case, [...]
In the trial, which took place in Virginia, a cancer survivor sued her ex-husband because she wanted the sole ownership of the two embryos they had frozen after an IVF cycle or divide them as jointly owned personal property. The woman, who [...]
Argentina’s Supreme Court of Justice has rejected the application of a woman who requested the use of her late husband’s gametes to conceive embryos through assisted reproduction. She had hoped to undergo an intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) procedure using genetic material [...]
Australian company Monash IVF, a specialist in in vitro fertilization (IVF), has been sued by 700 former patients who were part of a genetic screening program for destroying their embryos. According to the lawsuit, Monash IVF, as well as the companies Repromed and [...]
A recent study analyzes the surplus of cryopreserved human embryos surplus from in vitro fertilization techniques stored in the United Kingdom. According to this research, their number is the highest since records began in 1991 by the UK Human Fertilisation [...]
The Alabama Supreme Court has legally equated frozen embryos with born children, prohibiting their destruction and establishing serious legal consequences if it is done. “Unborn children are ‘children’ under the [law], without exception based on developmental stage, physical location, or [...]
From October, children conceived in the United Kingdom since April 2005 through assisted reproduction techniques that have used donor eggs or sperm will be able to know the identity of their biological parents. The changes in the Law regarding sperm [...]
Introduction On Wednesday, 13 September, a proposal from the European Parliament on the regulation of “substances of human origin” (SoHO) was approved. The initiative aims to establish a legal framework for action with all those substances derived from human beings [...]
A recent retrospective study published in Fertility and Sterility has compared the risk of gestational hypertension in two groups of pregnant women after undergoing assisted reproductive techniques (ART) using both autologous (from the pregnant woman’s oocytes) and donated embryos (obtained [...]
The genetic selection technique carried out presents ethical and technical difficulties, so other ethically acceptable alternatives should be sought. For the first time in Spain, a girl with sickle cell disease has been successfully treated by transplanting cells from her [...]
