#reproductivetechnology — Public Fediverse posts
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Minister instructs Qld Health to review 'discriminatory' fertility guidance
By Emma JohnsonSeveral women were told they could no longer proceed with their treatments after the release of the Queensland Health guidance earlier this year.
#ReproductiveTechnology #FertilityandInfertility #EmmaJohnson
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'Incredibly unfair': Qld Health guidance changes family definition for lesbians
By Emma JohnsonThe Queensland Health advice, given to fertility providers to help navigate the state's assisted reproductive technology legislation, has had a "devastating" impact on some same-sex couples trying to have more children.
#ReproductiveTechnology #FertilityandInfertility #PregnancyandChildbirth #EmmaJohnson
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"A Chinese tech company is building a humanoid robot that can get pregnant and give birth. It has a synthetic uterus, fake amniotic fluid, and a plastic umbilical cord. The goal is to grow a baby inside it—from embryo to delivery. No human body required."
#AshleyFike, 2025
https://www.vice.com/en/article/robot-with-artificial-womb-could-give-birth-to-humans-by-next-year/
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Scientists Made Human Eggs from Skin Cells and Used Them to Form Embryos
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Lab-grown sperm and eggs: ‘epigenetic’ reset in human cells paves the way
Technique wipes away tags on DNA that must be reprogrammed during development of reproductive cells.
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The mindset lying behind this command to subdue and take dominion over reproductive technology is a mindset that wants to subdue and dominate anyone who questions the minoritarian, religion-based view that a human person is fully present from the moment of conception. This is a call to coerce dissenters, to use law to subdue and dominate the majority.
And for that reason it should concern all of us who will be the subdued and dominated.
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Dave Pepper does a deep dive into the thinking that lies behind the increasing push, now led by evangelicals like the Southern Baptists, to ban IVF. As he notes, there's the insistence in key documents like Project 2025 and Heritage Foundation essays that Protestants need to adopt the Catholic magisterial notion that a human person is fully present from the moment of conception.
#IVF #contraception #abortion #ReligiousFreedom #ReproductiveTechnology
/1https://davidpepper.substack.com/p/red-alert-project-2025-and-ivf
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"Human embryo science: can the world’s regulators keep pace? Concerned by the speed of research, policymakers are looking for alternative ways to establish rules on genome editing and other technologies." #science #developmentalbiology #bioethics #philosophyofscience, #bioethics, #reproductivetechnology
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Groundbreaking studies of sheep fertility helped develop human IVF and stem cells A young scientist’s groundbreaking research into sheep fertility in the 1960s helped him pioneer human IVF and stem cell research. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-14/landline-an-ivf-pioneers-journey-from-sheep-to-stem-cells/11964830 #FertilityandInfertility #ReproductiveTechnology #AnimalNutrition #SheepProduction #AnimalScience
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What Happens When Reproductive Tech Like IVF Goes Awry? Opinion: Freezers fail. Samples are mislabeled. Embryos get switched. But a lack of regulation leaves those harmed by such negligence without clear recourse. https://www.wired.com/story/when-ivf-goes-awry #ReproductiveTechnology #Science/Biotech #WiredOpinion #Science #Opinion #opinion