Nearly three years ago, the best-selling novelist Jennifer Weiner read an article in The New York Times Magazine by Alex Kuczynski, about hiring a gestational surrogate to carry her baby. I’m guessing that many of you remember the article, titled “Her Body, My Baby,” because it made so many readers furious. (You were also none too pleased with a similar piece two years later, by Melanie Thernstrom, about hiring two surrogates at one time.)
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A real-time report from the frontier of IVF.
Holly Finn chronicles how she became an accidental pioneer (and guinea pig) in the ever-evolving science of in vitro fertilization. A powerful and at times comical story of longing, hope and hormones that will appeal to all parents, present and future.

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If you are born with a life-threatening condition, how do you live your life? It’s a question Alisa Latto has grappled with for the past 36 years.

Ms Latto’s choice to ‘do everything’ included starting a family.

As Australian Story reveals, Ms Latto had to navigate an almost unprecedented series of obstacles before becoming the mother of healthy twin boys in a Los Angeles hospital a year ago.

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TEL AVIV, Israel — Jewish and Arab, straight and gay, secular and religious, the patients who come to Assuta Hospital in Tel Aviv every day are united by a single hope: that medical science will bring them a baby.
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Israel is the world capital of in vitro fertilization and the hospital, which performs about 7,000 of the procedures each year, is one of the busiest fertilization clinics in the world.

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Huffington Post: Nearly 46 percent of American women through age 44 are childless. That’s up from 35 percent in 1976.

All reasons this generation of women are not bearing children at the same rate their mothers did are valid. Some are young women and just not at a point in their lives where motherhood is a choice they’d like to make. Some are ‘fence-sitters,’ not sure about whether or not they want children. Some are childfree by choice. Some are gay and need to take a potentially longer and less traditional route to motherhood. Some are suffering from biological infertility. And some, like me, are what I call “circumstantially infertile.”
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(Reuters) – A controversial IVF lottery will launch in Britain this month giving prospective parents the chance to win thousands of pounds toward expensive fertility treatments in top clinics.

The scheme, which the media have dubbed “win a baby,” has already run into trouble on ethical grounds with critics calling it inappropriate and demeaning to human reproduction.

Britain’s Gambling Commission has granted a license to fertility charity, To Hatch, to run the game from July 30.
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