Global Decline in Sperm Counts: Do I Need To Be Concerned?

New research findings have just been published in Human Reproduction Update by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Icahn School of Medicine in New York which show that global sperm counts have halved over the last fifty years.

FZ v MZ & FZ v Y Council [2025] EWHC 3338 (Fam): Transgender Legal Parentage & Birth Registration Dispute

18-12-2025

Preimplantation Embryo Gene Editing: Is This A Step Forward?

28-11-2025

National Fertility Awareness Week 2025

31-10-2025

National Adoption Week 2025

16-10-2025

Baby Loss Awareness Week 2025

13-10-2025

Breast Cancer and BRCA Genes: The Impact on Fertility

01-10-2025

British Fertility Society’s Creating Modern Families Day 2025

24-09-2025

World Contraception Day & Reproductive Choice

15-09-2025

Stand Up To Cancer Day 2025 And The Impact On Male Fertility

10-09-2025

‘So Little Consensus and So Little Trust’; Gender Dysphoria, Cross-Sex Hormones and Finding the Balance Between A Child’s Wishes and Best Interests

09-09-2025

UK Surrogacy: The Issue of Consent Following a Surrogate’s Traumatic Brain Injury Giving Birth

05-09-2025

Gynaecological Cancer Awareness Month 2025: The Impact on Fertility

01-09-2025

Declaration of Parentage: When Might This Be Relevant?

29-08-2025

National Rainbow Baby Day 2025

13-08-2025

The Risks of Unregulated Sperm Donation: Serial Sperm Donor Joe Donor

12-08-2025

F v J & Others [2024] and the Pitfalls of Mismatched Expectations, Rushed Known Sperm Donation and Co-Parenting Arrangements

06-08-2025

National Surrogacy Week 2025

05-08-2025

World Breastfeeding Week 2025

04-08-2025

A Cautionary Tale About Informal Sperm Donation: P v Q & F (Child: Legal Parentage) [2024]

25-07-2025

Louisa Ghevaert: 25 Years In Law

09-07-2025

Women In Change Awards 2025

09-07-2025

Modern Families Forum 2025

23-06-2025

DNA Testing Firm 23andMe Avoids Bankruptcy With $256m Sale: What Happens To My Genetic Data?

23-05-2025

Growing Families UK & EU Surrogacy & Donor Conception Conference 2025

20-05-2025

Spain Cracks Down on International Surrogacy

02-05-2025

International Surrogacy Law Update 2025

09-04-2025

WEALTH: Women In Health

04-04-2025

Is Fertility Treatment A Solution To Population Decline?

02-04-2025

Genetic Testing Firm 23andMe Files For Bankruptcy: What Does This Mean For Me?

31-03-2025

Ethica Fertility Launch Event

21-03-2025

Epigenetics In Human Reproduction

12-03-2025

Lessons To Be Learned By The Fertility Sector From the Infected Blood Scandal & Inquiry

07-03-2025

Can Genetics Impact Fertility?

03-03-2025

Declaration of Parentage: Resolving Birth Registration, Parental Status & Identity

25-02-2025

Judicial Warning & Naming 0f Serial Sperm Donor ‘Who Fathered 180 Children’

20-02-2025

Genetic Testing: A Non-Biological Father, Mistaken Birth Registration & Parental Responsibility Void Ab Initio

11-02-2025

Genetic Testing, Political Uncertainty & Citizenship: Family Law In Focus

27-01-2025

Posthumous Conception In Focus

23-01-2025

Secret Sperm Donation & The Early Years of UK IVF

23-12-2024

The Future of Womb Transplants

25-11-2024

Newborn Genome Sequencing At Birth: The Generation Study Progress Update

04-11-2024

BBC News: DNA Testing and the Law, ‘I could have lost my child’ after flawed DNA test

29-10-2024

Posthumous Conception & Surrogacy: The Importance of Consent

30-09-2024

British Fertility Society’s Creating Modern Families Day 2024

20-09-2024

The Mail On Sunday: More Single Men and Men Over 50 and 60 Are Applying For Children Through Surrogacy

15-09-2024

The Surrogacy Network: A Journey To Parenthood

13-09-2024

BioNews’ 25th Birthday Celebration

05-09-2024

Donor Conception Law: Calls for Global Limits For Egg And Sperm Donors

02-09-2024

Rise in DNA tests being used to claim citizenship of other countries

19-08-2024

Netflix’s The Man With 1,000 Kids: Part One

28-07-2024

Can Air Pollution Affect My Fertility?

12-07-2024

Resolution’s Modern Families Forum 2024

21-06-2024

Fertility Show 2024 London Olympia

24-05-2024

Gender Dysphoria, Puberty Blockers and Hormone Replacement Therapy: Treatment of A Young Person

17-05-2024

Declaration of Parentage: Will This Rectify My Birth Certificate?

13-05-2024

Mary Warnock at 100: The Architect of Embryo Law

20-04-2024

FemTech Lab Spring 2024 Connect

25-03-2024

Welfare of the Fertility Patient: Spotting and Treating Trauma

22-03-2024

Fertility Treatment & Surrogacy In The Workplace

01-03-2024

Surrogacy: What Do Midwives Need To Know?

13-02-2024

IVF Add-Ons: How Should We Score the HFEA’s New Ratings System?

08-02-2024

Declining Global Fertility Rates: A Growing Problem

13-01-2024

Posthumous Conception Law: Should I Consider This?

04-01-2024

Declaration Of Parentage: Will This Resolve My Personal Identity, Legal And Biological Parenthood?

29-12-2023

Fertility Law Reform In The UK: How Much Change Do We Want?

14-12-2023

UK Surrogacy Law Reform On Hold

13-12-2023

Podcast: The Surrogate

22-11-2023

Public Policy Projects Global Genomics Conference 2023

10-11-2023

Male Infertility And Reproductive Health: A Growing Problem?

19-10-2023

Fertility Treatment Landscape For Those Living With HIV

04-10-2023

Genomics England Research Summit 2023

20-09-2023

BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour Interview: Posthumous Conception

24-08-2023

British Fertility Society’s Modern Families Day 2023

22-08-2023

International Surrogacy Law & Assisted Conception Update

17-08-2023

Can Microplastics Affect My Fertility?

28-07-2023

Declaration of Parentage: When Might I Need One?

13-07-2023

Donor Conception Network’s 30th Anniversary

26-06-2023

Decoding The Future of Women 2023

13-06-2023

2nd International Surrogacy Forum, Copenhagen, June 2023

11-06-2023

Fertility Show Olympia London 2023

21-05-2023

Sperm Donor Fraud: One Year On from Netflix’s Documentary “Our Father”

14-05-2023

One Year On Since Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization [2022]

09-05-2023

American Academy of Adoption & Assisted Reproduction Attorneys 2023 Annual Conference

08-05-2023

The Surrogacy Network: UK Surrogacy Law Reform 2023

21-04-2023

Building Families Through Surrogacy: Law Reform

30-03-2023

The Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing

16-03-2023

Declaration of Parentage Applications: The Significance of Legal and Biological Parenthood

14-03-2023

UK Adoption Order granted to a single non-biological mother for a child born through a Californian surrogacy arrangement

03-03-2023

A Conversation with Eloise Edington Founder of The Ribbon Box

09-02-2023

A Conversation with Fertility Coach Sarah Banks

02-02-2023

Assisted Conception & Family Building in 2023

27-01-2023

Making Fertility Treatment Fair: Equality in Access, Equality in Outcome

16-12-2022

Developments in International Surrogacy Law and Practice

05-12-2022

Latest UK Trends in Egg, Sperm and Embryo Donation

30-11-2022

Global Decline in Sperm Counts: Do I Need To Be Concerned?

18-11-2022

A Conversation with Professor Sir Rory Collins Chief Executive of UK Biobank

27-10-2022

HFEA ‘State of the Fertility Sector 2021-22’ report

20-10-2022

Perspectives on Illumina’s Genomics Forum 2022

06-10-2022

Illumina Genomics Forum 2022: Spotlight Speaker Bill Gates

05-10-2022

Illumina Genomics Forum 2022: A Conversation with Former US President Barack Obama

04-10-2022

Illumina’s Inaugural Genomics Forum 2022

03-10-2022

Cord blood banking: life-saving potential that’s usually discarded at birth

21-09-2022

Is it important to protect my fertility and genetic legacy?

13-09-2022

Changing Face of Family Life and Fertility in England and Wales in 2022

10-08-2022

Later-life parenthood: what do I need to consider?

05-08-2022

Understanding of Fertility, Genomics and Embryo Research in the UK in 2022

03-08-2022

Women’s Health Strategy for England Marks a Step Forward

22-07-2022

Declaration of parentage: the importance of identity, status and birth certificates

19-07-2022

Conceiving with Donor Sperm: What Could Go Wrong?

19-07-2022

Trends in fertility treatment in 2022

11-07-2022

US Supreme Court overturns Roe v Wade: what does this mean for reproductive rights and freedoms?

28-06-2022

Progress Educational Trust’s 30th Birthday Party

24-06-2022

Egg, sperm and embryo freezing: what could go wrong?

20-06-2022

DNA testing, parentage disputes and the law

15-06-2022

Declaration of parentage: confirming family ancestry and biological parentage following adoption

08-06-2022

Sperm Donor Dispute: Parental Responsibility, Child Arrangements Orders and Fragile X Syndrome

07-06-2022

The future of IVF and surrogacy in the US if Roe v Wade is overturned

31-05-2022

Fertility Law Reform in the UK: What Needs to Change?

27-05-2022

Changes to Egg and Sperm Donor Anonymity Law in the UK

24-05-2022

Expert Witness Fertility Law: Claims for IVF, Donor Conception and Surrogacy

18-05-2022

Netflix’s “Our Father”: DNA testing, paternity disputes and questions about biological and legal parentage

16-05-2022

Egg Donation Law, Policy and Practice

11-05-2022

Undergoing Fertility Treatment in the Workplace and Fertility Law Reform

29-04-2022

Surrogacy Law Update: British Fertility Society’s Creating Modern Families Day 2022

08-04-2022

Trends in Surrogacy Law and Family Building in 2022 in England and Wales

31-03-2022

International surrogacy law: legal parentage, citizenship, time limits and parental orders

03-02-2022

Egg and Sperm Donation: Identity Issues, Anonymity, Disputes and the Law

17-01-2022

Fertility Law, Family Building and Modern Family Relationships in 2022

12-01-2022

Declaration of Parentage: resolving family ancestry, questions about parentage and birth certificates

30-11-2021

The Mail On Sunday: Surrogacy and Later-Life Parenthood in the UK

08-11-2021

The Future of The Family Justice System: Remote Court Hearings

29-10-2021

BBC World Service Interview: The economics of older mums

13-10-2021

Creating Happy Families

08-10-2021

Plans to extend legal storage limits for eggs, sperm and embryos

17-09-2021

The International Family Law Practice Sixth Edition

02-09-2021

Donor sperm DNA ancestry information available at California Cryobank

20-08-2021

Future trends: egg and sperm banks

12-08-2021

Fertility treatment and IVF in the workplace

05-08-2021

Human genome editing in a fertility context: The World Health Organization’s framework for governance of human genome editing

29-07-2021

IVF rights in France to be extended to single women and lesbian couples

01-07-2021

UK fertility treatment trends over the last 30 years

16-06-2021

Keep Up to Date with Fertility & Family Law at Louisa Ghevaert Associates

03-06-2021

Surrogacy in the UK and internationally during the Covid-19 pandemic

28-05-2021

Why we need genomic and fertility law reform part V

22-05-2021

Surrogacy Law Update: British Fertility Society’s Creating Modern Families Day 2021

14-04-2021

When infertility strikes and fertility treatment fails: what’s next?

01-04-2021

Surrogacy under strain

26-03-2021

Times Radio Interview: Single Parent Surrogacy and Surrogacy Law Reform

29-01-2021

Life, family and fertility in 2021

11-01-2021

Podcast: The Intricacies of Fertility Preservation

17-12-2020

Fertility, Genomics and Covid-19

14-12-2020

The future of female fertility: are biological constraints inevitable?

30-11-2020

The fragility of human fertility and male reproduction

26-11-2020

Legal parentage disputes: modern families and the law

18-11-2020

Fertility treatment delivery during the continued Covid-19 pandemic

09-11-2020

The UK’s New National Genomic Healthcare Strategy, Genome UK

20-10-2020

Latest trends in family formations through UK fertility treatment

05-10-2020

Egg Freezing and UK Law Reform

02-10-2020

Human Genome Editing: World Health Organization and Global Governance

22-09-2020

Human gene editing: from evolution to revolution? Why we need fertility and wider law reform part IV

10-09-2020

Ovarian rejuvenation: another option for a successful pregnancy?

24-08-2020

The global legal identity gap

21-08-2020

Saving and storing your baby’s cord blood and tissue: is this a growing trend?

18-08-2020

International surrogacy law reform: is this achievable?

14-08-2020

Legal aspects of known donor arrangements

12-08-2020

The IVF postcode lottery and law reform

10-08-2020

Later life parenthood: a fertility and family law perspective

31-07-2020

Direct to consumer genetic testing: a family and fertility law perspective

28-07-2020

Why we need fertility and wider law reform part III

17-07-2020

The importance of legal parentage

13-07-2020

UK fertility treatment trends: what’s next?

08-07-2020

Should I freeze my eggs or embryos?

01-07-2020

Should I invest in specialist fertility and family law advice?

23-06-2020

Coronavirus Regulations for the Storage of Gametes and Embryos

17-06-2020

Life and family in the Covid-19 era

01-06-2020

The impact of Covid-19 on family building and life

23-05-2020

Coronavirus and law and policy: a family and fertility perspective

03-05-2020

UK fertility clinics to resume treatment services

01-05-2020

UK storage limit for frozen eggs, sperm and embryos extended due to Covid-19 pandemic

27-04-2020

A legal watershed: UK Supreme Court awards commercial surrogacy damages

16-04-2020

Surrogacy during the Covid-19 pandemic

06-04-2020

Fertility Treatment during the Covid-19 pandemic

03-04-2020

The UK Supreme Court awards damages for commercial surrogacy

01-04-2020

The British Fertility Society’s Modern Families Day 2020

30-03-2020

Apple Podcast: Fertility law for modern families with Louisa Ghevaert

26-02-2020

Government review of storage law for eggs, sperm and embryos

13-02-2020

Egg Donation in the UK, Belgium and Spain

12-02-2020

Fertility and Family Law, Policy and Practice in 2020

10-02-2020

Consumer law guidelines for the IVF sector

09-02-2020

BBC Radio 5 Live Interview: proposals to lift advertising restrictions on surrogacy in the UK

30-01-2020

BBC Radio 5 Live Interview: harvesting dead men’s sperm for posthumous conception

25-01-2020

Why we need fertility and wider law reform part II

15-01-2020

A Realistic Look at Assisted Reproduction

05-12-2019

Why we need fertility law reform: the paradigm shift

25-11-2019

Perspectives on Fertility Forum 2019

05-11-2019

Fertility Forum 2019

22-10-2019

Law Commission: reforming surrogacy law

15-08-2019

Perspectives on surrogacy law reform

25-07-2019

Emily Hartridge: Life you literally can’t plan for it

17-07-2019

Fertility preservation: extending the 10-year storage limit

22-06-2019

Global Genetic Policy Responsibilities and Assisted Reproduction

10-06-2019

Power, Wealth, Baby-Making and Genetic Policy Responsibilities

02-06-2019

British Fertility Society’s Creating Modern Families Day 2019

28-05-2019

Perspectives on Fertility Fest 2019: “Life Rewired”

09-05-2019

A new genetic test can screen embryos for low intelligence: is this a good or a bad thing?

06-05-2019

Launch of the Sperm, Egg & Embryo Donation Trust (SEED)

02-05-2019

Should I undergo genetic testing before having a family?

30-04-2019

Welcome to Louisa Ghevaert Associates

12-04-2019

The future of fertility policy in the context of the genomics revolution

12-04-2019

Fertility and Family Law Trends

16-01-2019

Fertility preservation: Rachael Bland’s story

11-09-2018

Posthumous conception: a ray of hope for the future

16-08-2018

Surrogacy, relationship breakdown and modern families

05-07-2018

Louisa Ghevaert features in The Lawyer Hot 100 List 2018

28-02-2018

Louisa Ghevaert Honoured in The Lawyer Hot 100 List 2018

30-01-2018

Trends in Fertility and Family Law

19-01-2018

Fertility and Family Law in Action

21-01-2016

BBC Radio London Interview: Solo Father Through Surrogacy Awarded Adoption Order

09-03-2015

BBC World Service Interview: Banning Commercial Surrogacy in Thailand

24-02-2015

Louisa Ghevaert recognised as leading expert in UK fertility and parenting law

03-11-2014

International Surrogacy Law: Time Limit for parental order

03-10-2014

Fertility and family law in progress

04-12-2013

Louisa Ghevaert Shortlisted by Family Law Awards 2013

24-07-2013

Maternity leave granted in surrogacy cases

21-12-2012

Elizabeth Banks welcomes second surrogate son

16-11-2012

Three reasons why surrogacy can go wrong

12-10-2012

Mother in surrogacy case fights legal battle for maternity rights

26-09-2012

Fertility and Parenting law team shortlisted for The Law Society’s 2012 Excellence Award in Innovation

11-09-2012

The legacy of Jill Hawkins, the UK’s most prolific surrogate mother

07-09-2012

Ukrainian surrogacy law dispute: TV coverage places Ukrainian surrogacy under the spotlight

10-08-2012

Indian surrogacy: draft law finalised to bring in regulation

17-07-2012

Surrogacy ban to hit Queensland: a worrying step backwards

06-07-2012

Louise Brown, the world’s first IVF baby, talks about surrogacy and assisted conception

29-06-2012

The intersection of fertility and family law

12-06-2012

International surrogacy in India: an unregulated market

29-05-2012

NICE issues new IVF and fertility guidance

22-05-2012

Surrogacy and the celebrity factor

01-05-2012

Surrogacy and donor conception: the question of parenthood

18-04-2012

The impact of infertility

12-04-2012

The Modern Family (A Resolution Guide) features a chapter on assisted reproduction and surrogacy

30-03-2012

Surrogacy: what motivates its practice?

27-03-2012

International surrogacy guidelines in Ireland: improvement or just a headline?

16-03-2012

Indian surrogate born twins granted French civil status

09-03-2012

UK surrogate pregnant for a ninth time with twins

29-02-2012

Surrogacy: crossing the legal divide

23-02-2012

International surrogacy: same-sex parenting, domicile and immigration

08-02-2012

US hospital chain seeks to recoup money following illegal surrogacy ring

01-02-2012

Surrogacy: is it on the increase?

25-01-2012

Further celebrity endorsement fuels demand for international surrogacy

04-01-2012

Couple win IVF postcode lottery battle against PCT

20-12-2011

Fertility treatment is on the rise in the UK

17-12-2011

International Surrogacy: British couple allowed to keep children born to two Indian surrogate mothers

07-12-2011

International surrogacy law: Bulgaria moves to legalize surrogacy

29-11-2011

Fertility treatment, IVF, PGD and the creation of healthy embryos

25-11-2011

Louisa Ghevaert lectures on international surrogacy at The Fertility Show 2011

21-11-2011

American Bar Association hosts international fertility and surrogacy law congress

17-11-2011

Surrogacy should not be equated to adoption: a headache for law and policy makers?

15-11-2011

International surrogacy article featuring Louisa Ghevaert published in fertility magazine Fertility Road

14-11-2011

Pink Parenting magazine features article on international surrogacy: navigating the legal pitfalls

04-10-2011

Fertility treatment and parenting: a quantum shift?

22-09-2011

Fertility, infertility and parenting: is fertility preservation for women the way forward?

21-09-2011

UK Donor Link wins temporary reprieve

21-09-2011

Fertility law, donor conception and surrogacy: Reproductive Medicine 2011

15-09-2011

UK Donor Link threatened with closure

26-08-2011

International surrogacy and fertility law: is greater regulation needed?

24-08-2011

Surrogacy in focus: the perils and the pitfalls

11-08-2011

International Surrogacy: Australian couple could face criminal charges following surrogacy in Thailand

29-07-2011

High Court Judge grants surrogacy parental order in favour of a deceased parent

11-07-2011

Pink Parenting Magazine features parenting law expert Louisa Ghevaert on the legalities of surrogacy, adoption and fostering

11-07-2011

BioNews Article: IVF, donor conception and surrogacy: Is progressive global regulation possible?

06-07-2011

IVF postcode lottery: Louisa Ghevaert joins BBC Radio Somerset debate on IVF funding

01-07-2011

International Surrogacy: Ukrainian legal changes afoot?

23-06-2011

International surrogacy “hot-spots”: USA, Ukraine and India

17-06-2011

International surrogacy: should there be global regulation?

14-06-2011

IVF doctor knighted

12-06-2011

Donor conception law and policy

06-06-2011

Infertility, fertility law and treatment: how big a problem is it in the UK?

27-05-2011

Fertility Law: multiple IVF birth numbers continue to fall in the UK

24-05-2011

High Court Judge gives interview on international commercial surrogacy

20-05-2011

International Surrogacy: beware of the legal difficulties warns High Court Judge

18-05-2011

International surrogacy: payments, policy and the media

11-05-2011

Welcome to Louisa Ghevaert’s website

07-01-2010