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• NYT Asks: Are There Too Many Ways to Conceive?

  Lisa Belkin over at the NYT's Motherlode blog wonders if the pursuit-of-parenthood market may be oversaturated.  Citing the recent examples of the Sarah Jessica Parker/Matthew Broderick surrogate twins and the woman attempting to become a surrogate grandmother by using her dead son's sperm, Belkin asks if science -- with its IVF, egg donations, fertility drugs and other advances -- has perhaps given us too many options. She quotes The Washington Post's Liza Mundy, who recently wrote a book about assisted reproduction: "When there is always something else to try ... there is no permission to stop. That’s the hardest part of the process for couples. For most of them, the ‘permission’ to stop comes when they run out of money." Mundy mentions a key word there: money. Read More... Posted Apr 29 2009, 07:29 PM by Jen Chaney with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: IVF, infertility, Conception, Egg donation, surrogacy, economy, getting pregnant over 40, conceive, Lisa Belkin, Jen Chaney, sperm donation, new york times, motherlode, science and pregnancy

• Ice, Ice Baby: Frozen Sperm Works, 22 Years Later

  After all the crazy stories of fertility treatments gone mad and nutty grandparents trying to extract sperm from the dead, it's refreshing to hear about the everyday miracles advanced reproductive technology can bring to parents who yearn for a child. Read More... Posted Apr 10 2009, 03:01 PM by Kate Tuttle with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Cancer, infertility, sperm, fertility, leukemia, sterility, sperm donation, in vitro, frozen sperm, chris biblis

• Sperm Donor's Teen Daughter Finds Him on Myspace

  Something tells me the creators of Myspace didn't have this kind of social networking in mind when they set up the site. A California teenager plugged in all the information she had about the man whose sperm her mom used to conceive. The computer spit back seven possibles - including one photo that looked an awful like her. So Virginia gave Dr. Todd Whitehurst a call. Read More... Posted Dec 04 2008, 09:31 AM by JeanneSager with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: adoption, girls, sperm donor, teenager, birth parents, daughter, Jeanne Sager, birth father, sperm donation, single mom, web

• Morning News: Bush Acknowledges Crappy Presidency ... Yet Leaving With Head Held High

  Last night in an interview with ABC's Charlie Gibson, the man who is barely still president (big sigh of relief) owned up to a few of his failures as president. He said the Iraq war exceeded his expectations (and not in a good way) and that he was unprepared for war. He also took a bit of the blame for John McCain's election loss. The biggest regret of his presidency? Read More... Posted Dec 02 2008, 09:00 AM by Madeline Holler with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: vaccines, John McCain, recession, george w bush, morning news, daily palin, sperm donation, medical breakthroughs, vacation in hawaii, hawaiian vacation obamas

• Is Banked Sperm Really the Same as Hair and Toenail Clippings?

  The contents of a freezer that broke down at a Britain hospital in 2003 wasn't just holding yesterday's lunch. It was keeping on ice the only hope six men would ever have of one day fathering children. Now five of the cancer patients (one has since died) are locked in a battle for damages that's now in front of the country's highest court. Read More... Posted Nov 25 2008, 11:31 AM by JeanneSager with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Cancer, sperm bank, fatherhood, fertility, Jeanne Sager, sperm donation, frozen sperm

• Journalist Suing for Sperm-Donor Dad's Identity

  Oliva Pratten knows her dad was stocky. He had brown hair like her and blue eyes. She even knows his blood type. What she doesn't know is who his or how he came to deposit a cup of sperm at a bank in her native Canada. Now she's suing to find out. Read More... Posted Nov 14 2008, 02:51 PM by JeanneSager with | with 11 comment(s) Filed under: lawsuit, Canada, british columbia, Jeanne Sager, sperm donors, biological parents, biological father, sperm donation

• Bad Economy Means More Eager Egg Donors

  One commodity in these trying economic times that is still in high demand is fertility. And more women than ever before are hoping to cash in on their eggs, with Good Morning America reporting a 30 to 40 percent increase in egg donor applicants. Experts warn that infertile couples should be particularly careful in choosing an egg donor agency, since such a huge increase in women looking to donate means a higher risk of lower donor standards. Read More... Posted Oct 27 2008, 03:45 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: youtube, money, eggs, Egg donation, Good Morning America, economy, egg donor, sperm donation, on the rise