Richard Heinberg / ResilienceSep 13, 2023
An alarming decades-long decline rate in male sperm count could lead to near-universal male sterility by 2060. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )
Carter Dillard and Phoebe BarnardJun 5, 2023
Confronting how population growth contributes to the crisis could lead to necessary policy change. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Julie Bindel / TruthdigMar 6, 2019
Defenders of the practice of surrogacy contend that everyone benefits from it, but that’s not always the case. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )
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Julie Bindel / TruthdigSep 16, 2016
Welcome to the marketplace built on women’s oppression, disposability, desperation and despair. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
Peter Z. Scheer / TruthdigOct 15, 2014
At the intersection of good intentions and just-plain-weird, two of the biggest tech companies are offering their female employees an unusual benefits package. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigDec 20, 2011
As of late last year, a Fremont, Calif., man had donated his sperm 328 times to would-be parents who found him on the Internet. The Food and Drug Administration has told the donor, whose self-described "service to help the community" has produced 14 children, to stop. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigSep 19, 2011
Cryos, an international network of sperm banks based in Denmark, is refusing donations from gingers, because, says director Ole Schou, there simply isn't demand outside of Ireland, where red hair sells "like hot cakes." The company is most interested in sperm from Indian donors and those with brown hair and eyes. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Cherilyn Parsons / TruthdigJul 29, 2011
Ann Patchett's sixth novel, "State of Wonder," poses a provocative question: If, ladies, you could preserve your fertility into your 50s, 60s or even later, would you? Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMar 25, 2011
They've gone and done it, those crafty scientists: As reported by Nature (as in the publication), a team of Japanese researchers has successfully cultivated "fully developed sperm" from "immature mouse testicles." And they're not just showing off. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJul 27, 2009
Is there a fairer way to compensate surrogate mothers? Too often, surrogacy is about a wealthy couple hiring a poor woman to breed for them.Too often, surrogacy is about a wealthy couple hiring a poor woman to breed for them. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Ellen Goodman / TruthdigFeb 5, 2009
It turns out that the woman who recently gave birth to eight babies already had six in vitro kids at home, no spouse, no job and a pending bankruptcy. There's a word for this achievement of medicine's reproductive business: nuts. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigSep 4, 2006
Doctors on the frontier of in vitro fertilization now offer to test embryos for predisposition to treatable cancers and other ailments using the same technique that detects some serious childhood maladies. As scientists learn more about the code that builds human life, critics warn of an age when the wealthy will be able to buy a healthier brood. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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