HeyReprotech's November roundup
Watch, read, participate...
Watches
"Joy." Netflix. 2024.
A drama based on the story of IVF.
Like many of you, I watched this as soon as I could. On balance, I thought it was pretty good.
The movie reminded me that I'd written a post in 2019 drawn from Louise Brown's autobiography. There was so much, especially about her parents' early lives, that surprised me! Read it here: Things I didn't know about the world's first IVF baby.
Also, I really liked this personal reflection on the movie, by Roger Gosden, a reproductive scientist who trained under Robert Edwards.
I've also decided to reread Robin Marantz Henig's excellent 2004 book, Pandora's Baby: How the First Test Tube Babies Sparked the Reproductive Revolution.
Reads
Sarah Kester. "They asked for a surrogate on Facebook, and it delivered." CBC. 25 Nov 2024.
Yemisi Adegoke, Chiagozie Nwonwu, and Lina Shaikhouni. "'Pregnant' for 15 months: Inside the 'miracle' fertility scam." BBC. 25 Nov 2024.
Susan Dominus. "An I.V.F. mix-up, a shocking discovery and an unbearable choice." The New York Times Magazine. 24 Nov 2024.
Jeremy Sharon. "Court says birth parents of girl born in IVF mix-up must give her to genetic parents." The Times of Israel. 24 Nov 2024.
Samson Atekojo Usman. "Reps move to stop harvesting, commercialisation of human eggs in Nigeria." Daily Post. 21 Nov 2024.
Tom Blackwell. "Canadian surrogate mothers refusing to carry Israeli babies." National Post. 11 Nov 2024.
Meagan O'Halloran. "Sudden Nashville fertility clinic closure leaves hundreds of families lives shattered." MSN. 10 Nov 2024.
Francoise Baylis and Katie Hasson. "South Africa amended its research guidelines to allow for heritable human genome editing." The Conversation. 24 Oct 2024.
Studies
Stanford University - Assessing Attitudes of Donor-Conceived Individuals Toward Gamete Donor Guidelines (scroll down)
University of Texas Medical Branch - Healthcare Professionals’ Views on Assisted Reproductive Technology for the LGBTQ Population
University of Sheffield - The Digital Donor Conception Study
University of Bristol, University of Kent, University of Liverpool - Children's Voices in Surrogacy Law
University of Ottawa, University of Waterloo, University of Manitoba and others - Surrogates' Voices
University College London - Health Outcomes in Subfertile Men
University of Kent - Egg freezing For Social Reasons
University of Birmingham - Survey of LGBTQ+ parents