Donor babies: A question of identity

Donor babies: A question of identity

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Introducing: The Climate Question: China's green energy revolution

China is installing solar panels and wind turbines so fast that its greenhouse gases emissions may now have peaked. If this trend is confirmed, it would be a major milestone in the fight against climate change because China is the world's largest polluter. The BBC’s Beijing Corre ...  Show more

Inside the Mugabe dynasty

Late Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe died in 2019, but in the years before and since his death, his three children with his former wife, Grace, consistenly made headlines for all the wrong reasons. In April 2026 Bellarmine Mugabe pled guilty to a firearms offence in South Afri ...  Show more

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Daniel Groll, "Conceiving People: Genetic Knowledge and the Ethics of Sperm and Egg Donation" (Oxford UP, 2021)
New Books in Philosophy

In the United States, tens of thousands of children are conceived every year with donated gametes. When people decide to create a child with donated gametes, they’ll typically have to make a moral decision about whether the identity of the donor will be available to the resulting ...  Show more

The Societal Taboos of Child-Free Lives, Parental Regret and Eschewing Motherhood
KQED's Forum

A growing number of adults are choosing to not become parents, a lifestyle described as “child-free.” Yet many people, especially women, say they feel judged by their families, friends — and even their own doctors — when they vocalize not wanting children. By the same token, some ...  Show more

Le don d'ovocytes
PARENTALITÉ(S) - Éduquer c'est comprendre.

De nombreuses femmes en parcours de PMA, confrontées à une infertilité après un long parcours de tentatives avec leurs propres gamètes, de nombreux échecs, se tournent vers le don d’ovocytes, pour beaucoup à l’étranger et de plus en plus en France. Pour devenir parent, la dimensi ...  Show more

My Dead Lover Is My Sperm Donor
Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People

This caller and her girlfriend are trying to have a baby via IVF in a very unusual way. She tells Geth about the many outcomes that the process could bring, including a scenario where both she and her girlfriend get pregnant.