The petitioner got pregnant through In-vitro fertilisation (IVF), which is an artificial insemination wherein the identity of the sperm donor isn’t revealed even to the mother.

The media is buzzing with the surprise news that a Chinese researcher, Jainkui He, has created the world’s first genome-edited twins. He did this, ostensibly, to provide resistance to HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Françoise Baylis, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Bioethics and Philosophy, Dalhousie University, Graham Dellaire, Director of Research and Professor […]

Dr Indira Hinduja had performed India’s first successful IVF delivery on August 6, 1986. Mani Chawda’s daughter, Harsha, became the country’s first IVF baby. Thirty years later, Dr Hinduja delivered Harsha’s baby, defying the myths which say that IVF babies cannot lead a normal life. Dr Hinduja had attempted IVF with about 17 couples before she met the Chawdas, […]

We all talk a lot about choice and one of the biggest choices we make is whether to have kids and when to have kids. These days many women delay having children because they are focussed on their careers, worried about the effects childbirth will have on their body, or simply because its not a […]

For millions of women all over the world, the worst enemy ever is their biological clock. There it is, tick-tocking away, leaving them with a huge dilemma.

Author of the award-winning book, Silent Sorority, Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos works in the venture capital and tech sectors. She reveals that she has gone through various fresh and frozen embryo transfers and was disappointed every time. She adds that out of 1.5 million IVF procedures each year, 1.2 million fail.   So essentially, assuming that the body […]