HeyReprotech's March roundup
Read, listen, attend, watch, participate...
Reads
India Ross. "The promise and perils of the egg-freezing revolution." Financial Times. 23 Mar 2024.
Anna Collinson, Maryam Ahmed and Bella McShane. "Egg freezing patients ‘misled’ by clinics." BBC. 12 Mar 2024.
Kat Brown. "Life after IVF: Mother’s Day doesn’t upset me any more." The Times. 09 Mar 2024.
Nadeem Badshah. "East London fertility clinic has licence suspended after losing embryos." The Guardian. 08 Mar 2024.
Noor Mahtani. "The limbo of surrogacy in Colombia: 'What is not forbidden is permitted'." El Pais. 27 Feb 2024.
Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos. "Alabama lawsuit reveals what happens when IVF industry wants it both ways." Boston Globe. 26 Feb 2024.
Brian Bix. "Egg donation, commodification, and coercive payments." Family Law Jotwell. 23 Feb 2024.
Listens
Hanna Moore. "Why are there so few Black sperm donors in the US?" The Guardian. 04 Jan 2024.
Events
05-06 Apr - in-person conference - International Conference for the Universal Abolition of Surrogacy
09 April - Osgoode Law School online replay - Fertility Law: Critical and Emerging Issues
13 Apr - one-day in-person event by Donor Conception Network for people thinking about using donor sperm or eggs - Getting Started
17 Apr - Progress Educational Trust free online event - Mary Warnock at 100: The Architect of Embryo Law
24 Apr - Progress Educational Trust free online event - 40 Years of Egg Donation and Counting: What Have We Learned? What Happens Next?
25-28 Apr - in-person conference uniting adoption, assisted reproduction and NPE communities - Untangling Our Roots Summit
26 Apr - University of Warwick Department of Sociology conference - Radical Mothering in Europe: Everyday Forms of Resistance
26 Apr - Donor Conception Network online workshop for professionals - Making It Real
22-23 May - in-person meeting - UK Fertility Preservation Annual Conference
27-29 May - in-person meeting - Network for Young Researchers in Andrology
Watches
"Missed Conceptions." PBS. 2024.
"After a life-long search, a woman discovers and attempts to get to know her deceased, sperm donor father— doctor, scientist, prolific artist—making even more discoveries along the way."
"Egg Freezing and Me." BBC. 2024.
"Egg freezing is one of the fastest growing fertility treatments in the UK. But there are concerns patients are undergoing a medical treatment they might not need, or that might not work."
"Joy" — first look teaser. Netflix. 2024.
"Three British pioneers, one vision. Here's your first look at Joy, a new film based on the story of the birth of IVF."
Studies
Queen Mary University of London - Remaking Fertility online survey
University of Hertfordshire - Gay Fathers and Surrogacy Research Study
University College London - Survey about long-term health of men affected by fertility problems
Universite du Quebec en Outaouais - Contact Project: The experience of gamete donors contacted by their donor offspring
University of Kent - Egg freezing for social reasons
Toronto Metropolitan University and University of Waterloo - Elective egg freezing in Canada: Towards appropriate legislation governing consent
Leeds Beckett University - The online sperm donation project
University of Ottawa, University of Waterloo, University of Manitoba and others - Surrogates' Voices
University of Birmingham - Survey of LGBTQ+ parents
Resources
"The HFEA dashboard is produced from data collected from licensed fertility clinics in the United Kingdom who, by law, must provide us with data on all fertility treatments and outcomes. We are committed to improving transparency and accessibility in the data we collect from clinics."
HFEA dashboard explanation.
You can use the HFEA dashboard to find information about:
how many people got each kind of assisted reproduction treatment
IVF and ICSI cycles and live births
IVF and ICSI birth and pregnancy rates, per embryo transferred and per cycle
number of donor insemination cycles and live births
number of people becoming donors
number of multiple births
private and public funding of assisted reproduction
number of people freezing and thawing eggs and at what age