Cherry Lin wistfully strokes a babygrow, fretting it may be too small for a son she is yet to meet — one of hundreds of Chinese mothers estranged from babies born to commercial surrogates overseas after the coronavirus forced border closures.
Read moreA San Francisco Bay Area woman has accused a fertility doctor of using his own sperm to impregnate her not once, but twice — rather than the anonymous donor she requested.
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Experts at the St. Louis Zoo are trying to figure out how a 62-year-old ball python laid seven eggs despite not being near a male python for at least two decades.
Read moreThe child of a gay couple who was born in England via a gestational surrogate is a U.S. citizen and entitled to a passport, a federal court in Georgia ruled. The State Department initially denied the girl’s passport application, claiming she was not a citizen because she only shares a biological relationship with one of her parents, who had not been physically present in the U.S. for long enough.
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Millions of women and girls globally have lost access to contraceptives and abortion services because of the coronavirus pandemic. Now the first widespread measure of the toll says India with its abrupt, months-long lockdown has been hit especially hard.
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French prosecutors have indicted pharma giant Sanofi for manslaughter over birth defects linked to an epilepsy drug, the company said Monday, in a long-running case that has also seen it charged with fraud.
Read moreAn Indiana appeals court declined to dismiss malpractice claims against a doctor who allegedly artificially inseminated a woman with his own sperm rather than a medical school resident’s donor sperm.
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An orca known as Tahlequah, who raised worldwide concern when she carried her dead calf for 17 days and more than 1,000 miles almost two years ago, is pregnant, scientists said.
Read moreChart Inc. faces 65 federal lawsuits claiming that a defective weld on cryopreservation tanks caused 2,500 embryos and 1,500 eggs to fail.
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A federal judge in Georgia ruled Monday that a state law outlawing abortions after doctors can detect a fetal heartbeat, usually at about six weeks of pregnancy, is unconstitutional.
Read moreFugitive Chinese national Chao Chen was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for his role in a birth tourism scheme involving visa fraud that allowed women to come to the U.S. to give birth so their children would have U.S. birthright citizenship.
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The Sixth Circuit refused Tuesday to reinstate a Kentucky law that would require physicians to perform a so-called fetal demise procedure before a standard second trimester abortion, ruling the law imposes a significant burden on women seeking abortions.
Read moreA train conductor sued the New York City Transit Authority and the supervisor she says sexually assaulted her at work while she was pregnant, in Kings County Court.
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U.S. births continued to fall last year, leading to the fewest number of newborns in 35 years.
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Dialing in from the hospital, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made no secret of her disapproval of the government Wednesday for standing in the way of women’s access to free birth control.
Read moreAn appeals court in California ruled that a woman lacked standing to pursue a tort claim against a tissue storage facility for the loss of her deceased husband’s sperm, which was extracted while he was in a coma. The donor’s intent controls the use of gametic material, and the woman did not prove that her husband wanted her to conceive a child with his sperm posthumously.
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The callers were in tears. One by one, women in homes across rural Zimbabwe had a pleading question: When would family planning services return?
Read moreThe American Civil Liberties Union and others accuse U.S. Border Patrol of mistreating a pregnant asylum seeker from Guatemala, who – while waiting to be processed for deportation – gave birth while standing against a garbage can at the border patrol station.
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For 10 days after giving birth to her first child, the mother was not allowed near him after she tested positive for coronavirus, for fear of infecting her newborn.
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