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More needs to be done to encourage British men to donate sperm to stop a nationwide sperm shortage forcing women to rely on operators, including from abroad, with less stringent checks.

Would-be parents may benefit from IVF, rather than conceiving naturally because it allows a baby, technically, to have two mothers.

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Clinics are offering men the chance to put fatherhood on ice by freezing their sperm, something that could prove helpful to those who have cancer or are in high-risk roles like the military.

After actress Sienna Miller revealed she has frozen her eggs at 40, it has emerged that British women are doing so right up to their 50th birthdays.

The society has said it will no longer attend the Fertility Show in London because of concerns over non-medical treatments sold to couples trying to have a baby.

Some private clinics in the US currently offer polygenic risk score tests to screen for diseases to parents using in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment for prices of more than £1,040 ($1,400).

IVF clinics that sell useless add-ons costing couples to waste thousands of pounds are now to face fines in a shake up of old and outdated fertility treatment laws.

‘Real hope’ new transplants could help men whose chances of fatherhood have been damaged by chemotherapy and radiotherapy in their youth

Kent University found 413 parental orders were issued in England and Wales last year, compared to just 117 in 2011. As many as two thirds of applicants were mixed sex couples.