I feel for women misled over egg-freezing. If I’d believed doctors during my transition, my kids wouldn’t be here | Freddy McConnell
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by Freddy McConnell
2d ago
We all deserve better from healthcare providers who sell false promise to some, while shutting down options for others You can’t have missed the conversations about the rise of freezing eggs for non-medical or “social” reasons in recent years, which forms part of an explosion in the use of fertility treatments, all with the promise of giving more options to prospective parents. The starting point is often the question of whether someone, almost always a wealthy, straight, white woman, should freeze her eggs as insurance against her “biological clock”, career development and/or the risk of not ..read more
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There’s a crisis in male fertility. But you wouldn’t know it from the way many men behave | Elle Hunt
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by Elle Hunt
6d ago
When couples fail to conceive, it’s too often regarded as the woman’s problem. But that is far from being the case Women are rarely given the chance to forget about our biological clocks: their starting, slowing, stopping. I remember talking about whether I’d want children with my mum when I was six or seven years old. Now that I’m 32, my friends are having children, debating having them, or dating in the hopes of having the option. My female friends, that is. My impression of the men in my life is that they are not really thinking about children at all, instead assuming that they will happen ..read more
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East London fertility clinic has licence suspended after losing embryos
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by Nadeem Badshah
1w ago
Investigation begins into Homerton Fertility Centre after errors discovered in freezing processes A fertility clinic in London has had its licence to operate suspended because of “significant concerns” about the unit, the regulator has said. The Homerton Fertility Centre has been ordered by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) to halt any new procedures while investigations continue ..read more
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Scientists move step closer to making IVF eggs from skin cells
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by Ian Sample Science editor
1w ago
Procedure could overcome common forms of infertility and help people have children who share their DNA Scientists are a step closer to making IVF eggs from patients’ skin cells after adapting the procedure that created Dolly the sheep, the first cloned mammal, more than two decades ago. The work raises the prospect of older women being able to have children who share their DNA, and to overcome common forms of infertility caused by a woman’s eggs becoming damaged by disease or cancer treatment ..read more
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Alabama law protecting IVF met with both relief and concern: ‘There is more work to be done’
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by Victoria Bekiempis in New York and agencies
1w ago
Republicans proposed bill so providers could resume services, but doctors and advocates say it reinforces ruling recognizing embryos as children Alabama’s swift passage of a law on Wednesday night that protects in vitro fertilization providers from liability was greeted by relief – and some concern – as treatments were expected to resume on Thursday following the state supreme court’s shock decision last month that equated frozen embryos to children, halting many IVF services. After the new law was passed reproductive rights advocates called for more to be done to protect reproductive health ..read more
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US health secretary on Alabama’s IVF ruling: ‘Pandora’s box was opened’ after fall of Roe
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by Jessica Glenza
1w ago
Xavier Becerra says US must provide federal protections for reproductive rights if it hopes to avoid further restrictions The health and human services secretary, Xavier Becerra, said the US must provide federal protections for reproductive rights if Americans hope to avoid further restrictions on in vitro fertilization, contraception and abortion in an exclusive interview with the Guardian. Becerra’s comments come in the wake of an Alabama supreme court decision that gave embryos the rights of “extrauterine children” and forced three of the state’s largest fertility clinics to stop services f ..read more
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Friends assumed I would keep going, but after three rounds of IVF I knew I’d had enough | Claire Mulcahy
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by Claire Mulcahy
1w ago
After enduring an excruciating miscarriage, I beat myself up. Between stories of miracle babies and moralising about leaving it too late, it’s easy to feel there’s something wrong with you We like to tell children to not give up, that quitting is not an option. I remember, as a child, being reminded by probably well-meaning teachers that there is no such word as “can’t ..read more
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Our Body review – a brave, unblinking, hospital’s-eye view of women’s health
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by Leslie Felperin
1w ago
Documentarist Claire Simon films women, including herself, receiving care in a women’s health, obstetrics and gynaecology ward at a Parisian hospital Film-maker Claire Simon operates the camera herself for this extraordinary film, assuming the traditional vérité position of an observant fly on the wall and silently recording consultations and procedures in a women’s health, obstetrics and gynaecology ward at a Parisian hospital. Except at a crucial point, two-thirds into the film’s 168-minute running time, the fly turns the camera on herself when she finds out she too has cancer, just like sev ..read more
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Alabama legislature passes bill aiming to protect IVF after embryo ruling
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by Edward Helmore
2w ago
Measure intends to provide legal protection to clinics after state’s supreme court ruled embryos were ‘extrauterine children’ Alabama lawmakers moved to protect in vitro fertilization treatments in the state, days after a state judicial ruling on embryos led to clinics that offered the reproductive technique to suspend services. Alabama’s house and senate both passed a measure on Thursday intended to provide legal protections to IVF clinics, a temporary fix to problems created by a state supreme court ruling that deemed frozen embryos “extrauterine children ..read more
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‘We did it in cattle’: Alabama Republicans’ bungled response to IVF patients
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by Adria R Walker
2w ago
Patients and doctors gather at state house following IVF ruling searching for answers from lawmakers – but find none On Wednesday morning, some 200 Alabama in vitro fertilization (IVF) patients, doctors and advocates descended on the Alabama statehouse. Wearing orange and pink shirts for infertility awareness, they carried a variety of handmade signs: “You can’t cuddle an embryo.” “I just want to be a mom.” For these people and thousands of others in the state, the last two weeks have been tumultuous ..read more
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