- 'We have a right to know our parents'
- Let’s chill: New York’s egg freezing party
- College poster campaign takes 'hook-up' culture to task
- In rare move, Pope Francis to publicly celebrate 20 marriages
- Concerns, confusion swirl over LGBT group in St. Patrick's parade
- The ethics of transgender fertility
- I’m 28 with 4 Kids — and Guess What, Society? I’m Not a Failure.
There
are calls for a change in birth certificate regulations after a woman
conceived by sperm donation had her adopted father erased as parent.
|
 Commercialisation
of IVF is crossing new frontiers in New York with “egg freezing
parties” for career women who want to keep their options open. A company
called EggBanxx will retrieve and store eggs – for about US$7,000 to
$8000 per cycle. The first year of freezing is free. Here’s the pitch: |
 A
poster campaign distributed at 25 colleges and universities in the U.S.
and Mexico calls students to question the predominance of 'hook-ups'
and assures students there are healthy alternatives to the culture often
promoted by university orientations. |
 The
Vatican has released the schedule of Pope Francis' main liturgical
celebrations for the month of September, during which he will publicly
perform the marriage of 20 couples. |
 A
spokesman for the New York City St. Patrick’s Day Parade said the
inclusion of an LGBT activist group in the traditionally Catholic parade
was a “gesture of goodwill,” though concerns have been raised that some
outside groups aim to remove the event’s Catholic character. |
 A
disturbing trend in fertility science may see gay couples using IVF
techniques to harvest eggs from one woman for implantation in a
surrogate's uterus, to be fertilized using sperm from a male donor. |
 "About
halfway through my last pregnancy, when I still had some semblance of
energy left and didn’t resemble a giant hippopotamus, I bounded into the
gym for an aerobics class with my younger sister." |
