HeyReprotech's April roundup
Watch, listen, read, participate, attend...
Watches
"Spermworld." FX, Hulu. 2024.
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"Mother." [in development]
A documentary about surrogacy in Ukraine.
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"La marchandisation des uterus?" Contact avec Stephan Bureau. 18 Apr 2024.
Listens
Matt Katz. "Inconceivable Truth." Apple Podcasts. Apr 2024.
"Investigative reporter Matt Katz has been searching for his biological father since he was a little kid. But it wasn't until his 40s that he realized he was on the wrong journey altogether. The true story is wrapped in confusion and secrecy, and in the end it upended the truth about who he is – raising questions about identity, fatherhood, medical ethics and what family really means. But will finding answers make him whole, or just make things even more complicated? Inconceivable Truth is an 8-episode series with new episodes publishing Thursday mornings."
Reads
Lenny Bernstein and Yeganeh Torbati. "Inside the opaque world of IVF, where errors are rarely made public." The Washington Post. 28 Apr 2024.
Kaitlyn Abdou. "IVF ruined my life. What I learned from years of failed fertility treatments." Today.com. 23 Apr 2024.
Saleh Salem, Imad Creidi and Andrew Mills. "Gaza's IVF embryos destroyed by Israeli strike." Reuters. 17 Apr 2024.
Rae Nudson. "What If You Hadn’t Frozen Your Eggs?" The Cut. 02 Apr 2024.
Events
04 May - Donor Conception Network members-only in-person event - Spring Conference
19 May - Women in Medicine in-person event - Maternal Journeys Brunch: From Fertility to Motherhood
21 May - Edinburgh Fertility Preservation, University of Edinburgh in-person interactive event - Pioneering a Fertile Future
22 May - Progress Educational Trust free online event - 10 Families & Counting: Time for Global Limits on Donor-Created (Half) Siblings?
22-23 May - in-person meeting - UK Fertility Preservation Annual Conference
27-29 May - in-person meeting - Network for Young Researchers in Andrology
12 Jun - Britsoci Human Reproduction Study Group Annual Conference, in-person - Education on the Life Cycle of Fertility and Reproduction
7-10 Jul - ESHRE - 40th Annual Meeting
Studies
University of Bristol, University of Kent, University of Liverpool - Children's Voices in Surrogacy Law
University of Sheffield - The Digital Donor Conception Study
Fertility Alliance - Patient Survey
Universite du Quebec en Outaouais - Contact Project: The experience of gamete donors contacted by their donor offspring
Queen Mary University of London Remaking Fertility online survey
University College London - Survey about long-term health of men affected by fertility problems
University of Ottawa, University of Waterloo, University of Manitoba and others - Surrogates' Voices
University of Kent - Egg freezing for social reasons
University of Birmingham - Survey of LGBTQ+ parents
Leeds Beckett University - The online sperm donation project
Resources
Surrogacy360 is a great independent resource if you want to find out about laws and regulations in different jurisdictions, ethical standards in surrogacy, and the latest news.
