| Under Victorias Infertility Treatment Act, spare IVF embryos cannot be stored for longer than five years. However, couples can seek an extension to this rule. |
| In California, however, some conservative religious groups object to IVF and consider Americas 400,000 or so frozen embryos to be "souls on ice". |
| Through a friend of a friend, Fran heard about a clinic in the Czech Republic. Naturally, she had questions. “I didn’t want to be on someone’s couch in an alley,” she says. She contacted ivfvacation.com, a Web site run by an Ohio-based husband-and-wife team that helps American women arrange and take IVF vacations to the Czech Republic. Their services include helping women fill out medical questionnaires prior to departure, booking accommodations and car rentals, planning tours and arranging translating services for clinic appointments. .... Didnt someone post a link here a few months about a Czech fertility "resort" where the eager woman undertakes the Clomid Challenge (my last GF thought that name sounded like a golf tournament) and the eager man gets his hose siphoned of sperm, all trying to do this under more comfortable settings? |
| I feel sorry for the folks at the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA). It must sometimes feel as if they cant do a thing right. The latest news is that they are liable for costs of more than £1m after raiding the IVF clinics run by Mohamed Taranissi earlier this year, in the misguided belief that he was acting unlawfully. The response from libertarians like Living Marxisms Mick Hume is that the "fertility police" should be shut down. But its more complicated than that. |
| Senior sources said yesterday that the position Mr Andrews submitted to cabinet had strong support, with a majority of ministers declaring their opposition to using spare IVF human embryos for stem- cell research. |
