Infertility and E-patients

Susannah Fox at e-patients.net has a brief interview with Melissa of Stirrup Queens. (Full disclosure: I am mentioned, because of my “Blogging Infertility” article.) I was taken by this question in particular: SF: In Miller’s article, she writes about how infertility was a “silent disorder” and went on to...

The Globalization of Baby-Making

Ellen Goodman has a fascinating column in the Boston Globe about the international surrogacy business. She writes: [T]here is — and there should be — something uncomfortable about a free-market approach to baby-making. It’s easier to accept surrogacy when it’s a gift from one woman to another. But we...

Blogging Infertility

I have an article in the current issue of TNA about “infertility bloggers,” men and women who keep online journals about their struggles trying to conceive (or as they call it “ttc”): As it has for people suffering from cancer or other illnesses, the blogosphere offers the infertile a place to chronicle their...

Welcome!

Welcome to Conceptions, a new blog about assisted reproductive technology. I’m currently working on a project on the social and legal repercussions of ART, thanks to a generous grant from the Phillips Foundation. I’m also editor of Doublethink magazine, a project of the America’s Future Foundation. You can find some of...