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2 Families Learn They're Raising Each Other's Babies

Devastating mix-up leads to 'happiest ending possible'

(Newser) - After their babies were born in 2019, two Southern California families occasionally wondered about what little resemblance the newborns had to their parents. Then, when the infants were just a few months old, they learned why: The fertility clinic where both had undergone IVF somehow mixed up their embryos, and...

Trump: I'm 'the Father of IVF'
Trump: I'm 'the Father of IVF'
Oct 16, 2024 2:50 PM CDT

Trump: I'm 'the Father of IVF'

Campaign says remark was 'made in jest' during town hall on women's issues

(Newser) - Donald Trump, speaking in front of an all-female audience Tuesday at a town hall event in Georgia, declared that he is "the father of IVF." The former president told Fox News moderator Harris Faulkner that Republicans "really are the party for IVF," AL.com reports. "...

Trump: If Elected, I'll Make IVF Free

However, he doesn't explain exactly how that would work

(Newser) - While Kamala Harris was being interviewed on CNN , Donald Trump was telling the audience at a Michigan rally that, if elected, he'd go beyond protecting in-vitro fertilization—he'd make it free. "I'm announcing today in a major statement that under the Trump administration, your government will...

Now Walz Is Under Fire for 'Lying' About His Wife Doing IVF

Turns out she actually did IUI, a different procedure

(Newser) - In March, after an Alabama court halted in vitro fertilization procedures in the state, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz decided to speak about his struggle to have children with his wife, Gwen. He has made his family's struggle with fertility a central part of his narrative after he became the...

IVF Condemnation Passes Southern Baptists' Vote

Measure barring women from all pastoral positions barely loses

(Newser) - Delegates to Southern Baptists' annual meeting voted Wednesday to oppose in vitro fertilization, a procedure the resolution calls "dehumanizing," as advocates cast IVF as the next battleground now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned. The measure calls for Southern Baptists to support the right to life of...

Suits: Clinic Destroyed Embryos, Implanted Them Anyway

Ovation Fertility cut corners, tried to trick couples into signing away claims, they allege

(Newser) - Eleven couples say a California fertility clinic destroyed their embryos but went ahead and implanted them anyway, according to a new lawsuit—the second of at least eight expected to be filed in the case, per the Guardian . Two couples sued Ovation Fertility in Newport Beach last week, alleging their...

In Alabama, a 'Political Earthquake,' Over Abortion, IVF

Democrat Marilyn Lands wins special election for state House seat, running on abortion and IVF

(Newser) - In vitro fertilization has now been granted protections in Alabama, after a controversial state Supreme Court ruling in February that declared embryos as children in the eyes of the law. Now, a Democrat in the deep-red state has been handed a "decisive victory" in a special election there, in...

IVF Will Resume in Alabama
IVF Will Resume
in Alabama
Mar 7, 2024 12:30 AM CST

IVF Will Resume in Alabama

Lawmakers pass bill to protect it, which governor signs

(Newser) - Alabama moved quickly to protect in vitro fertilization following the controversial state Supreme Court ruling that declared embryos children in the eyes of the law. The decision resulted in several IVF clinics halting the procedure, but the GOP-dominated state legislature swiftly passed a bill aimed at granting IVF legal protection...

She Longed for Babies for a Decade, Lost Them Both in Seconds

Palestinian woman lost her husband, newborn twins, other family members in Israeli strike

(Newser) - It took 10 years and three rounds of in vitro fertilization for Rania Abu Anza to become pregnant, and only seconds for her to lose her five-month-old twins, a boy and a girl. An Israeli strike hit the home of her extended family in the southern Gaza city of Rafah...

Trump, Biden Weigh In on IVF
Trump, Biden
Weigh In on IVF
THE RUNDOWN
Feb 24, 2024 10:45 AM CST

Trump, Biden Weigh In on IVF

Neither seems keen on Alabama Supreme Court's ruling as lawmakers there scramble for a 'fix'

(Newser) - Fallout continues in the wake of the Alabama Supreme Court's ruling on Monday that embryos frozen during the in vitro fertilization process are to be considered people. The University of Alabama at Birmingham's health system was the first medical center to pause its IVF treatments after the court'...

GOP Has Itself Another 'Hot Potato' After IVF Ruling
GOP Has Itself Another
'Hot Potato' After IVF Ruling
THE RUNDOWN
Feb 22, 2024 11:00 AM CST

GOP Has Itself Another 'Hot Potato' After IVF Ruling

Backlash against personhood ruling has begun; one hospital has already halted IVF treatments

(Newser) - On Monday, Alabama's Supreme Court ruled that embryos frozen via in vitro fertilization are to be considered children, in a case where IVF patients had sued after their embryos were accidentally destroyed at a fertility clinic. Critics are now warning of the "chilling effects" this ruling could have,...

Nikki Haley: 'Embryos, to Me, Are Babies'

University of Alabama suspends IVF treatments after court ruling

(Newser) - Nikki Haley on Wednesday addressed a state ruling that considers frozen embryos created through in-vitro fertilization to be humans, saying, "Embryos, to me, are babies." The Republican presidential candidate made the comments in an interview with NBC News . The ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court has caused concern...

Alabama's Top Court Rules Frozen Embryos Are Children

State supreme court ruling could have big impact on IVF

(Newser) - Alabama's top court on Monday issued a ruling that could have major consequences for in vitro fertilization. In its majority decision on a wrongful death lawsuit brought by IVF patients whose frozen embryos were destroyed when a patient accidentally dropped them on the ground after removing them from a...

Fertility Doc Accused of Using Own Sperm to Impregnate Patient

Woman says she would not have agreed to procedure had she known

(Newser) - A Maine woman is suing her former fertility doctor, alleging the former Harvard Medical School professor impregnated her using his own sperm instead of sperm from the donor he'd promised. Sarah Depoian says Dr. Merle Berger, one of the founders of Boston IVF, treated her in 1980 and said...

Couple Specifically Requested Embryos Frozen the Longest

The births of Lydia Ann and Timothy Ronald are thought to have set a record

(Newser) - The embryos were frozen on April 22, 1992. On Halloween this year, Rachel Ridgeway gave birth to twins born from those embryos, in what is thought to be a record for the longest-frozen embryos to result in a live birth. The record had been creeping toward the 30-year mark, with...

She Was 50, He Nearly Was. They Decided to Get Pregnant

Akhil Sharma beautifully charts his journey to parenthood

(Newser) - There are many different paths to parenthood, and in an exquisite piece for the New Yorker , Akhil Sharma writes of his own. Sharma, an author and professor at Duke, grew up with a severely brain-damaged brother who was unable to talk or walk, a mother who made him feel worthless,...

15 Months After Olympian's Death, His Daughter Is Born

Alex Pullin's widow gave birth to Minnie Alex in Australia through IVF procedure

(Newser) - Fifteen months after the sudden death of Olympic gold medalist Alex "Chumpy" Pullin, his newborn daughter has arrived. The Australian snowboarder's widow, Ellidy Pullin, on Thursday announced the birth of Minnie Alex, conceived through in vitro fertilization. "Your Dad and I have been dreaming of you for...

'Emotionally Devastating' IVF Is Even More So for Single Women

Alicia Lombardini advocates in the 'NYT' to ease logistical, financial obstacles for moms on their own

(Newser) - Alicia Lombardini became a mother right before the pandemic hit, and she's now the proud mom of an 18-month-old son. But hers wasn't a typical or easy journey to motherhood, and she's hoping maybe someday it will be for single moms like herself, she writes in the...

A Letter About Their Embryos Sends Couple Into a Tailspin

Hospital allegedly knew for years Elaine Meyer and Barry Prizant's 2 embryos were missing

(Newser) - Over the decade beginning in 2010, a study determined that 133 lawsuits had been filed in connection with lost, discarded, or damaged frozen embryos. Dr. Elaine Meyer and Dr. Barry Prizant are engaged in one such lawsuit, and Katherine Rosman dives into their story for the New York Times . The...

After IVF and Genetic Testing, She Had a Big Decision to Make

Implant the 'mosaic' embryo or not?

(Newser) - Jacquelynn Kerubo made a big decision right before New York City went into lockdown: to transfer a "mosaic" embryo into her uterus. As she explains in an essay for the New York Times , "mosaic" has been used since 2015 to describe the roughly 20% of IVF embryos that...

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