Showing papers in "Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online in 2017"

TL;DR: A group of UK stakeholders have established the Fertility Education Initiative to develop tools and information for children, adults, teachers, parents and healthcare professionals dedicated to improving knowledge of fertility and reproductive health.

TL;DR: This article compares the use of assisted reproductive technology (ART) and resultant kinship formations in four Middle Eastern settings: the Sunni Muslim Arab world, the SunniMuslim but officially 'secular' country of Turkey, Shia Muslim Iran and Jewish Israel.

TL;DR: Data collected over 5 years indicate that the Your Fertility programme meets a need for targeted, evidence-based, accessible fertility-related information.

TL;DR: This article examines how the British press represented Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards in the story of the birth of the first ‘test-tube baby’, Louise Brown, and how their success was simultaneously a British success.

TL;DR: It is argued that PHR can be better understood by adding the gender and margins-of-life perspectives, and that future ethical and practical discussions of this issue could benefit from the criteria emerging from this cross-cultural analysis.

TL;DR: Some of the issues that recipients and donors ought to consider before embarking on unregulated sperm donation are set out.

TL;DR: How laws governing family formation in Spain affect same-sex couples seeking to become parents is examined, in particular the cultural causes and implications of such laws.

TL;DR: It is argued that legal reform must be cognizant of the tenacity of this normative two-parent family model, particularly in relation to reform proposals surrounding donor conception and the annotation of birth certificates, which needs to be addressed before the state can justify the parameters of the information recorded.

TL;DR: This commentary sets out one possible model for reform to better ensure that those affected become aware of, and/or have access to, knowledge about their origins and that such information is stored and released effectively without compromising individual privacy.

TL;DR: The seven films described here present a wide range of gay dads, from those who adopt passels of the most at-risk, hard-to-place children, to wealthy couples who choose egg donors and gestational surrogates to produce 'designer' babies of their own.

TL;DR: The problems of birth registration reflect the broader muddle of identification in the UK and show the extent to which those involved have internalized the norms of the bureaucratic state.