Another dispatch from the Reproductive Revolution.
BioEdge,
MercatorNet’s associate site about bioethics, has been tracking the generosity of sperm donor dads for several years. Some men have fathered dozens of children, a few may have fathered hundreds. But in the case of Detroit gynaecologist and obstetrician Dr Philip Peven the word “thousands” is being used. It will be impossible to know, but since he delivered some 9,000 babies in his 40-year career, it seems possible. Some proportion of those children carry his genes.
Dr Peven is now 105 years old but is still in reasonably good health. Online DNA tests from sites like 23andMe and ancestry.com have united several of his offspring when they did some sleuthing into their genealogy.
Shady Grove Fertility (SGF) Supports New York s Child Parent Security Act (CPSA), which Will Allow NY Residents to Use a Gestational Surrogate Font : A-A+
The landmark surrogacy reform set to take effect February 15, 2021, reverses New York s ban on commercial gestational surrogacy, creating more equal opportunities for parenthood, a lifechanging act that SGF helps patients achieve through ethical and innovative treatment methods. NEW YORK, Feb. 3, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ Shady Grove Fertility (SGF) supports the Child Parent Security Act (CPSA), a landmark surrogacy reform that New York lawmakers passed on April 2, 2020. The CPSA will allow residents to engage paid surrogacy contracts starting February 15, 2021. Numerous advocacy groups including Men Having Babies, a nonprofit that advocates for equal parenthood opportunities for the LGBTQ+ community, lobbied extensively in the state s capital to make legal surrogacy in New York a reality.
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People who are pregnant should be able to decide if they want to get the coronavirus vaccine, US health agencies and medical organizations resoundingly agree. And in the first couple months of vaccine rollout, many pregnant health care workers have already chosen to do so:
Today I received the COVID-19 vaccine. I’m also 17 weeks pregnant!
It wasn’t an easy choice, but reading the stories of many other pregnant health care workers #onhere helped me to decide. 1/8 pic.twitter.com/WAKiFyFxRl Irène P. Mathieu, MD (@gumbo amando) January 13, 2021
Why the disagreement? The clinical trials
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In 2015 Vanessa van Ewijk, a carpenter in the Netherlands, decided that she wanted to have a child. She was 34 and single, so like many women she went to see a sperm donor.
She thought about conceiving at a fertility clinic, but the price was prohibitive. Then he found a perfect fit through a website called Desire for a Child – which is one of the growing number of online sperm marketplaces that bring donor candidates straight to potential recipients. Van Ewijk was particularly drawn to one profile, that of Jonathan Jacob Meijer, a Dutch musician in his thirties.
Meijer was handsome, with blue eyes and blond curly hair. Van Ewijk liked its authentic appearance. “We spoke on the phone, and he seemed polite and nice, well behaved,” she said. “He loved music and talked about what he thought about life. He wasn’t arrogant at all. He looked like someone he knew.”