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Women shouldn’t be forced to choose between a secure retirement or having kids.

Having kids shouldn’t be a luxury. It’s time we cut the cost of IVF

Women shouldn’t be forced to choose between a secure retirement or having kids. Something needs to change.

  • Victoria Devine

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Rebecca Featherstone in 2025, and with her mother, Judy, as one of the world’s first IVF babies. 

Rebecca was one of the first IVF babies. We now know how many there have been since

Despite the exponential rise in IVF families, experts warn the medical treatment is no panacea for nosediving fertility rates.

  • Kate Aubusson
The high cost of IVF is driving people to informal sperm donation

Informal sperm donation is on the rise in Australia. So are the risks

Because of the informal nature of these arrangements, there is little oversight and even less data. But no woman should have to go through this kind of trauma in the pursuit of parenthood.

  • Neera Bhatia
Monash University’s Professor Mary Herbert with a colleague.

Healthy babies born to cutting-edge, controversial new three-person IVF technique

Eight babies have been born from a cutting-edge and controversial three-person IVF technique, Australian and British scientists have revealed.

  • Liam Mannix
Specialist IVF nurses employed by one of the state’s largest fertility clinics are preparing to walk off the job on Wednesday afternoon.

IVF nurses walk off the job at Queensland clinics

Staff unhappy with the company’s pay offer also say it is refusing to give Queensland nurses the same allowances their interstate counterparts enjoy.

  • Courtney Kruk and Catherine Strohfeldt

Victoria has had a new IVF watchdog for six months. So far, it has not taken any action

Despite high-profile bungles in the assisted reproductive technology sector, the new regulator is yet to carry out a single enforcement action.

  • Grant McArthur
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Penny Higgs: I wish I started testing earlier, advocated for myself earlier, and somehow found the money in my 20s to freeze my eggs.”

Everything I wish I had known before deciding to freeze my eggs

As ambitious career women, we’re told we have time, especially with modern science. But life (and reproduction) isn’t always linear.

  • Amanda Smith
In the past two months, we’ve seen two cases of the wrong embryos transferred into patients, clinics providing incorrect information to sperm donors, and a class action against a number of IVF companies for add-on genetic testing that may have incorrectly found embryos were “abnormal”.

IVF ‘add-ons’ are a toxic cherry on a cake iced with desperation and hope

Some treatments have little evidence to support their use and others risk adverse effects. Yet IVF add-ons are regularly offered to desperate patients.

  • Isabelle Oderberg

How the most human of errors led to a woman giving birth to a stranger’s baby

Monash IVF counted a patient’s embryos and realised it had a catastrophic, life-altering problem on its hands.

  • Grant McArthur
Not so perfect match? Some children have been linked to the wrong sperm donors or the wrong women.

Our fertility industry is a mess. As a donor, I know what could fix it

Sperm donors and even mothers have been matched with the wrong children. We have the science to make sure it doesn’t happen.

  • Gary Nunn

Original URL: https://www.theage.com.au/topic/in-vitro-fertilisation-1mxy