Singapore Court Denies Full Compensation To Woman In IVF Mix-Up

A Singaporean woman inseminated with a stranger’s sperm in a startling in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) mistake cannot be compensated in full for raising the child, the city-state’s top court ruled Wednesday. Allowing the woman compensation would go against public policy on one’s obligations as a parent, the Court of Appeal said, adding that the expenses incurred … Read more

US Court Win For Same-Sex Sperm Donor

A Kansas man who donated sperm to a same-sex couple is not legally the child’s father and cannot be forced to pay child support, a court has ruled. William Marotta, from Topeka, answered a classified ad in 2009 from two women who wished to have a child. The couple later separated and the birth mother … Read more