Donor babies: A question of identity

Donor babies: A question of identity

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When Shiraz calls

A personal account of day-to-day life in Iran told through the conversations of two Iranian sisters – one in the UK, the other in the Iranian city of Shiraz. Since the outbreak of war at the end of February, a near total internet blackout and a shutdown of international phone lin ...  Show more

Mapping Epstein's global connections

The personal correspondence, photographs and papers of the late convicted sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein have been released to the public in stages, beginning in December 2025, after an almost unanimous vote in the US Senate. The released files run to three and a half ...  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.