Reproduction

Men, guard your genes!
Baby-obsessed bachelorettes will soon be able to create sperm from stray skin cells, warns Britain's Telegraph.
Dying to become mothers
The half-million women who die annually while giving birth are simply not a political priority.
The secret life of sperm
The author of a new book on the social history of "baby gravy" discusses sperm in children's books, the frontiers of artificial insemination and how semen became a TV star.
Dead man's sperm
An Israeli court gives parents permission to have a woman inseminated with their dead son's sperm.
Should I become an egg donor -- to pay off my loans?
I'm troubled by the ethical implications of taking money for my ova.
Will young women put their eggs on ice?
In Britain, fertility clinics are gearing up to cater to the "have it all" generation.
Save lives! Defy nature!
Parents who kill their kids prove that we shouldn't have an automatic right to reproduce.
Building better humans
The sci-fi possibilities of genetic tampering may soon become real. And there's no law against them.
Bear-naked video!
China is worried that its rare pandas aren't interested in sex, so they are showing them panda porn.
Letters to the editor
Has evolution ensured survival of the rapists? Plus: Kiddie sales force is exploitation; hot and bothered over RealDolls sex dolls.
No littering
Fertility experts urged to reduce number of embryos implanted
Italy mulls assisted fertility law
Parliament's lower house approves prison terms for human cloning or artificial insemination using donated sperm.
Cloning conundrums
Who gets the money if Bill Gates decides to reproduce himself?
Abstinence blues: Teen sex isn't always traumatic
The meme hunter
A British psychologist prowls for hard evidence that memes -- ideas that reproduce genetically, like viruses -- actually exist. What's one of the prime habitats? The Internet.

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