By Michael Cook A Massachusetts woman who was desperate for children is suing a hospital because its fertility clinic misplaced her viable embryo for 12 years. In 2004 Marisa Cloutier-Bristol and her husband went to Women & Infants Hospital in Providence (in the neighboring state of Rhode Island) for IVF treatment. She produced four embryos …
Continue reading "Massachusetts woman sues over ‘lost’ embryo"By Wesley J. Smith Whenever I write about the underregulated multi-billion-dollar infertility industry, I receive anguished emails from women who can’t become pregnant, declaring that they “would do anything to have a baby.” I can certainly empathize with their sadness, but their willingness to do anything is a problem. This deep and very human yearning …
Continue reading "The right to the baby we want"By Dave Andrusko A little over two weeks ago we posted on two women who have refused to abort babies they are carrying as surrogates: Melissa Cook and Brittneyrose Torres. Cook had entered in a contract in which she would be paid $33,000 to carry a baby conceived through IVF using a 50-year-old Georgia man’s …
Continue reading "Surrogate Mom refuses to abort, files suit challenging constitutionality of California’s surrogacy law"By Dave Andrusko David and Melissa Pineda have filed a malpractice suit against Dr. Rifaat Salem, alleging that he used two different techniques to abort when Dr. Salem discovered he had mistakenly implanted “strangers’ embryos” in Mrs. Pineda. “We went there to have a baby, not to kill a baby,” Mrs. Pineda said. The Pinedas …
Continue reading "Couple sues for malpractice after IVF doctor aborts “strangers’ embryos” mistakenly implanted in woman"By Wesley J. Smith Scientists are keeping aborted fetal ovaries alive in order to scavenge their eggs. From the Daily Mail story: Scientists are ready to plunder the ovaries of aborted babies for eggs to use in IVF treatment. Experiments have taken the process almost to completion, it emerged yesterday. They raise the nightmare prospect …
Continue reading "Scientists Want to Scavenge Aborted Fetal Ovaries"By Dr. Peter Saunders Editor’s note. Dr. Saunders is a former general surgeon and CEO of Christian Medical Fellowship, a UK-based organization with 4,500 UK doctors and 1,000 medical students as members. There is an article in the Daily Mail today reporting on the incidence of abortion for Down’s syndrome in IVF pregnancies. Statistics show …
Continue reading "Response to Daily Mail article on abortion of IVF babies for Down’s syndrome reveals frightening attitudes to disability"By Dave Andrusko A show of hands. How many pro-lifers are surprised that (according to the Washington Times) “The Department of Health and Human Services ‘is not requesting funds for this program’ because ‘the Embryo Adoption program will be discontinued in FY2013.’” I thought so: none. “Embryo adoptions” refers a situation where a woman has …
Continue reading "Surprised by this from Obama Administration?"Editor’s note. This appeared earlier this week on the blog of the Christian Medical Fellowship, a UK-based organization. Last week the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) held its annual meeting in Stockholm, Sweden on 3-6 July. Not surprisingly we had a number of stories from the papers presented at that meeting filtering …
Continue reading "Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis is too high a price for a perfect baby"