What If Men Could Make Their Own Egg Cells?

October 30, 2023

(Wall Street Journal) – Getting the egg out of the female body was a revolution, says Vardit Ravitsky, president of the Hastings Center, a bioethics institute. IVF, introduced more than 40 years ago, severed the connection between eggs and motherhood. A mother could be the person who supplied the egg, gave birth or raised a child.

“Socially, emotionally, legally, we changed how we think about parenthood and bonds,” Ravitsky says.

A potentially limitless source of eggs is the next frontier. (Read More)