Human reproduction
As India becomes the world’s most populous nation, engaging men in family planning ‘will be a game changer’
The United Nations projects that next year, India will surpass China and claim the title of the world’s most populous country. India’s population growth has actually been slowing down for many decades, thanks to comprehensive family planning — but the burden mostly falls on women.
In Ukraine, surrogacy is legal, but some ask if it’s exploitation
Since India, Thailand and Mexico shut down their commercial surrogacy industries, Ukraine has become the go-to spot for couples in the US and elsewhere. Some couples question agency practices there while lawyers, activists and feminists argue that surrogacy there exploits women.
In the future we will be making babies from skin cells, an author predicts
What if you could take skin cells and turn them into viable human eggs? Scientists have already done the procedure in mice, turning skin cells into eggs and into sperm. And guess what they raised? Baby mice. So how long before that’s the norm for human reproduction, given the rate of technological advancement?
