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Fertility Treatment Leads to Twins, Then Abortion
At age 43, Bettina Paige turned to fertility treatments to get pregnant to provide a sibling for her young son. It worked, too well. When the doctor used the word she didn't want to hear—twins—Paige,...
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The Switch: Good Acting, Bad, Bad Writing
Fine acting by Jason Bateman and Jennifer Aniston can't save The Switch . The film, an adaptation of a short story published in the New Yorker , promises an off-beat take on parenthood, but delivers a...
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From One Sperm Donor, 150 Siblings
When Cynthia Daily, her partner, and their son vacation with other families, "it's wild," she says. The kids "all look alike." That's because Daily turned to a sperm donor seven years ago; using the...
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Fertility Clinic Boss Likely Fathered 600 Kids
The biologist Bertold Wiesner set up a fertility clinic for high IQ donors in London in the 1940s, helping women conceive 1,500 babies before he died in 1972. But what he did not tell those using his...
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Supreme Court Takes on Govt. Surveillance Case
The Supreme Court is taking on the heightened government surveillance that's sparked a furor since the 9/11 attacks. Justices will determine the validity of a 2008 law that has allowed the government...
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Demand for US Sperm on the Rise
From Chile to Sweden, people around the world want more and more of our ... sperm? That is indeed the case, according to the Daily , which reports that demand for American men's genetic material has...
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National Zoo Welcomes Panda Cub
After five consecutive false pregnancies since 2007, the National Zoo finally has a little panda bundle of joy: The zoo's giant panda female, Mei Xiang, gave birth to a cub last night at 10:46pm,...
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Kansas to Sperm Donor: You Owe Child Support
A sperm donor in Kansas is fighting an effort to force him to pay child support for a child conceived through artificial insemination by a lesbian couple. William Marotta told the Topeka...
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Kansas: Sperm Donor Mom Lied for Child Support
In seeking state child support, a Kansas mom said she didn't know who donated the sperm to conceive her daughter, but that's not true, the state says. Jennifer Schreiner wrote on the application that...
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Fertility Clinic Worker May Have Secretly Fathered Kids
An exceedingly creepy story out of Utah suggests that a male receptionist at a fertility clinic secretly swapped in his own sperm during treatments, fathering at least one child and probably more,...
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Judge: Sperm Donor Owes Child Support
The latest twist and turn in the case of a man who provided sperm to a same-sex couple who then had a daughter: A Kansas judge ruled Wednesday that William Marotta is the "presumptive father as a...
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Why Pigs Don't Have Sex Anymore
Pity the modern boar: He roams the pen for a sow that's ready to breed and when he's about to, er, take action, a farmer appears with a catheter in his hands. The poor guy has been replaced by...
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US Helped Cuban Spy Impregnate Wife
One of the Cuban spies released by Washington last week is due to be a father in two weeks, thanks to what the New York Times calls "one of the strangest subplots in the annals of secret negotiations...
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Woman Bugged by Cops' Reaction to Thermos of Semen
A Florida woman trying to get pregnant via artificial insemination called police because she feared the thermos she was using to store sperm and dry ice might explode. Felicia Nevins sought the Pasco...
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Woman 'Horrified' by Ancestry.com Connection
Kelli Rowlette thought she knew who her biological father was. So when Ancestry.com showed her DNA matched a sample from a retired fertility doctor, she assumed the service was unreliable, per the...
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Kansas to Sperm Donor: You Owe Child Support
A sperm donor in Kansas is fighting an effort to force him to pay child support for a child conceived through artificial insemination by a lesbian couple. William Marotta told the Topeka...
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Kansas: Sperm Donor Mom Lied for Child Support
In seeking state child support, a Kansas mom said she didn't know who donated the sperm to conceive her daughter, but that's not true, the state says. Jennifer Schreiner wrote on the application that...
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Fertility Clinic Worker May Have Secretly Fathered Kids
An exceedingly creepy story out of Utah suggests that a male receptionist at a fertility clinic secretly swapped in his own sperm during treatments, fathering at least one child and probably more,...
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Judge: Sperm Donor Owes Child Support
The latest twist and turn in the case of a man who provided sperm to a same-sex couple who then had a daughter: A Kansas judge ruled Wednesday that William Marotta is the "presumptive father as a...
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Why Pigs Don't Have Sex Anymore
Pity the modern boar: He roams the pen for a sow that's ready to breed and when he's about to, er, take action, a farmer appears with a catheter in his hands. The poor guy has been replaced by...
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