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25
Nov
2019

Why we need fertility law reform: the paradigm shift

Over the next ten to twenty years and beyond, the world will evolve rapidly to take account of powerful digital, artificial intelligence, genomic science, epigenetic and human reproductive revolutions. We will need to adopt an enlightened and multi-disciplinary approach as genetic medicine and science increasingly cross-cuts fertility treatment delivery. This will require a paradigm shift in our thinking, leadership and approach to law, policy and regulation. We will increasingly need new national and international legal frameworks and safeguards.

05
Nov
2019

Perspectives on Fertility Forum 2019

LaingBuisson’s Fertility Forum in London on 1 November 2019 addressed a wide range of global issues, factors and trends which are influencing the rapidly evolving fertility sector. In addition to trends in delayed motherhood, it identified wider factors including technological advances, increased fertility awareness, greater social acceptance of modern family forms and changes in law and policy enabling greater access to assisted reproductive technology.

22
Oct
2019

Fertility Forum 2019

Louisa Ghevaert will join an expert panel of speakers at the LaingBuisson Fertility Forum 2019 at the Hilton London Olympia on 1 November 2019. Fertility Forum is a one-day international conference aimed at clinics, hospitals, infertility specialists, patient organisations, interest groups, investors and other advisors involved in domestic and cross border reproductive care. Fertility Forum 2019 will focus on European and international trends in the fertility sector.

15
Aug
2019

Law Commission: reforming surrogacy law

In May 2018, the Law Commission of England and Wales and the Scottish Law Commission finally began work on a surrogacy reform project. On 6 June 2019, it published a much-anticipated joint consultation paper, entitled “Building families through surrogacy: a new law”. Read Louisa Ghevaert's analysis of the proposals to reform surrogacy law and the wider context as featured in the July/August 2019 edition of Resolution's The Review Magazine.

25
Jul
2019

Perspectives on surrogacy law reform

Last Friday, 19 July 2019, Louisa attended The Law Commission’s surrogacy consultation event at Exeter University “Building families through surrogacy: a new law”. The Law Commission explained its proposals for surrogacy law reform and its new pathway to legal parenthood for surrogate born children. Read more about Louisa's perspectives on the proposals for law reform in Fertility Road Magazine.

17
Jul
2019

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

Emily Hartridge, TV presenter, Instagrammer and well-known Youtuber was the first person to be fatally injured in Britain when her electric scooter collided with a lorry near her home in South London. She had fought to preserve her fertility for the last three years. Just two days before her accident, she had announced that she was part way through fertility treatment to freeze embryos and start a family with her partner.

22
Jun
2019

Fertility preservation: extending the 10-year storage limit

On 6 June 2019 Baroness Ruth Deech QC introduced a Private Members’ Bill into the House of Lords. It calls for change to existing law and policy to extend the current 10-year storage limit for frozen eggs and sperm in the UK if people have not completed their family.

10
Jun
2019

Global Genetic Policy Responsibilities and Assisted Reproduction

The US continues to revisit its policy on three-person IVF and human genome modification of embryos. On Tuesday 4 June 2019, the US House Appropriations Committee restored the ban on human genome modification to the draft 2020 federal spending bill which had been removed by a sub-committee on 23 May 2019.

02
Jun
2019

Power, Wealth, Baby-Making and Genetic Policy Responsibilities

Following the UK’s decision to legalise three-person IVF in 2015, the US looks set to revisit its policy on human genome modification. If US legal restrictions are removed, it will represent a policy volte-face in just four years, and it will be significant in more ways than one.

28
May
2019

British Fertility Society’s Creating Modern Families Day 2019

Louisa Ghevaert is delighted to once again join the panel of expert speakers at The British Fertility Society’s annual Modern Families Day in London on 3 June 2019. This event is aimed at doctors and nurses concerned with fertility treatment, gamete donation and surrogacy.

09
May
2019

Perspectives on Fertility Fest 2019: “Life Rewired”

Fertility Fest 2019 runs from 23 April to 12 May 2019 at the Barbican in London. Currently in its third year, it’s the world’s first arts festival dedicated to fertility, infertility, the science of making babies and modern families. This year, its focus explores what it means to be human when science and technology is changing everything.

06
May
2019

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

A new genetic test is on the horizon in the US that enables people having IVF to screen out embryos.

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