The use of donor gametes – donated sperm and eggs – in assisted reproduction is a rapidly evolving practice. As a result, several regulations and best practice guidelines have been developed to ensure the safety and best interest of all parties involved, especially those of the donor offspring. Perhaps one of the most significant changes in Canada was the enactment of the Assisted Human Reprodu...

Although modern assisted reproduction techniques is helping to overcome severe male factor infertility, conventional treatment modalities are still the first approach to male fertility disorders. The critical step in treating male infertility is to evaluate properly every male partner of an infertile couple and to generate the suitable treatment strategy. Specific medical management of infertil...

OBJECTIVE To medically and psychologically assess gay men seeking parenthood through assisted reproduction and to provide guidelines for the assessment. DESIGN Qualitative observational study. SETTING Academic medical center. PATIENT(S) Thirty gay males (15 couples) presenting for assisted reproduction using an oocyte donor and a gestational carrier. INTERVENTION(S) Semistructured inter...

Marsha Garrison1 and Michele Goodwin2 have each written clever, edgy, and insightful articles on the oversight of new reproductive technologies. Both of them frame the issues around the regulation of reproduction, not assisted reproduction. “Assisted reproduction” might mean doctors, clinics, or patients. “Reproduction” clearly means mothers. Both are correct in this recognition: the regulation...