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They Put Their Surrogacy Funds in an Escrow Account. It's Gone

The Journal recounts there's no regulation or oversight of the escrow companies involved

(Newser) - Parents can easily spend north of $150,000 to have a child through a surrogate, and many turn to specialty escrow companies who handle the money: vouching that expenses sync with the terms of the contract and doling out the parents' payments to the surrogate so long as they do....

Trump Unveils Plan to Trim IVF, Fertility Drug Costs

Blueprint includes urging employer coverage and offering discounts through government website

(Newser) - The White House unveiled a plan Thursday to make in vitro fertilization and fertility drugs more accessible and affordable, casting the efforts as part of a broader initiative to lower health care costs. President Trump announced that his administration will soon issue guidance to encourage employers to offer fertility...

A 'Wild' Birth, From a Decades-Old Embryo

An Ohio baby has been born from an embryo frozen in 1994

(Newser) - A baby boy born has made history, arriving in the world after developing from an egg fertilized more than 30 years ago. It's the longest-frozen embryo to result in a live birth. It was a "rough birth," but Thaddeus Daniel Pierce, who arrived Saturday in the...

UK Welcomes First Babies With DNA From 3 Parents
UK Kids Are First With 3 Parents
Jul 17, 2025 7:57 AM CDT

UK Kids Are First With 3 Parents

Technique aims to stop rare genetic disorders from being inherited

(Newser) - Doctors in the UK have announced the birth of eight healthy babies through a pioneering IVF method that uses DNA from three individuals, reports the Guardian . The aim is to prevent the inheritance of incurable mitochondrial disorders. The approach, developed at Newcastle University, combines genetic material from the mother...

After 19 Years of Trying, She's Pregnant—Thanks to AI
After 19 Years of Trying,
She's Pregnant—Thanks to AI
in case you missed it
Jun 14, 2025 5:05 PM CDT

After 19 Years of Trying, She's Pregnant—Thanks to AI

New STAR technology detects scarce sperm unnoticed by embryologists

(Newser) - After nearly two decades of unsuccessful attempts to start a family, a couple at Columbia University Fertility Center has become the first to get pregnant thanks to a groundbreaking AI system designed to find even the rarest sperm. The couple, identified as 38-year-old Rosie and her husband, had spent...

Woman at IVF Clinic Gives Birth to Wrong Baby

Australia facility mixed up the embryos

(Newser) - An IVF clinic in Australia made a simple mistake with not-so-simple consequences: A woman gave birth to the wrong baby after the facility mixed up embryos, reports the BBC . Monash IVF in Brisbane says the woman was implanted with an embryo from another couple, a mistake that came to light...

Writer Investigates Nation's 'Spermpocalypse'
You've Heard of IVF,
Prepare for IVG
LONGFORM
Mar 30, 2025 8:31 AM CDT

You've Heard of IVF, Prepare for IVG

GQ story on nation's 'fertility crisis' looks at in vitro gametogenesis

(Newser) - The sperm situation right now in America "is no joke." That's according to Rosecrans Baldwin, who writes about the current "spermpocalypse" for GQ , a colorful description of the decline of sexual activity in the US, as well as of plummeting pregnancy and fertility rates. Sperm quantity...

Trump's IVF Order Is Praised—and Picked Apart
Trump's IVF Order Is
Praised—and Picked Apart
the rundown
Feb 19, 2025 10:25 AM CST

Trump's IVF Order Is Praised—and Picked Apart

A look at the executive order signed Tuesday

(Newser) - President Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order intended to expand access to and reduce costs of in vitro fertilization. As Trump put it, "I've been saying we are going to do what we have to do and I think the women and families, husbands, are very appreciative...

She Gave Birth After IVF, Then Had to Give Up Baby

Krystena Murray files suit after fertility clinic implanted someone else's embryo inside her

(Newser) - A Georgia woman who gave birth a little over a year ago to a long-hoped-for baby had to give him up just months later—because the fertility clinic that had helped her get pregnant implanted another couple's embryo. That's per a new civil lawsuit filed Tuesday in state...

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,...

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