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Human embryologists traditionally select which embryos are best to transfer into patients.

Artificial intelligence ‘beginning to make decisions about who is brought into the world’

Bioethics researchers want guidelines for use of AI in embryo selection during IVF, and transparency for patients.

  • Wendy Tuohy

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  • Fenella Souter
Leader of the Opposition in the Senate and Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Birmingham.

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Members of the class action are seeking compensation for economic loss as well as pain and suffering.

Cut to IVF rebate a ‘significant step backwards for reproductive health’

The former Coalition government had a policy to help address the declining fertility rate. Now NSW Labor wants to means-test it.

  • Alexandra Smith
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Louis Taffs was conceived by sperm donor, but is yet to meet his biological father.

At 26, I don’t know if my donor father is dead or alive – or if I’m ready to find out

Donor children now are born with a set of relationships with people known, yet to be known, and, for some, forever unknowable.

  • Louis Taffs
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Like her own mum, Alice couldn’t birth her baby – but she can breastfeed her

Inducing lactation is not often talked about. But here, Australia’s first IVF surrogate child – and her mum – discuss their experiences, 36 years apart.

  • Alice Clarke
Claire Kennett.

This at-home ‘egg timer’ test is an Aussie first. What does it tell us about fertility?

A test purported to measure women’s fertility is on the rise, but some experts are concerned about its potential to create anxiety and fear given its inaccuracy.

  • Lauren Ironmonger
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An unwelcome political donation.

The changes will remove some valuable supports for children of donors.

I used a sperm donor for my son. Why is the government abandoning us?

Would a stranger care about my beloved child who had been created with our shared genes? My counsellor understood my anxieties: “Most women think they’re meeting George Clooney.”

  • Alexandra Collier

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