WHEN a Departmental Committee of the Home Office was appointed to consider the problem of A.I.D., the subject was discussed on television, radio and in the press, and engendered a good deal of emotion both for and against?though often without much knowledge of the facts. Six years after that Committee published its findings, the situation may be reviewed in a more detached manner. I write as on...

Assisted reproduction is a relatively recent phenomenon. Aside from a few isolated examples, which apparently did not raise legal issues, assisted reproduction did not really come into its own until the practice of artificial insemination became common in the mid-twentieth century. Perhaps the earliest recorded example of a gestational agreement (surrogate mother) took place in biblical times.1...

Introduction The number of equine sperm used for artificial insemination (AI) in the mare was largely established by research conducted at Colorado State University in the 1970s [1-3]. The minimum insemination dose of 500 million progressively motile spermatozoa (PMS) established in these studies has been widely used as an industry standard. Clinical observations suggest that this insemination ...

OBJECTIVE To look at the level of compliance with Swedish law whether or not parents intend to tell their child about donor insemination. We also wanted to look at the parents' attitudes towards open-identity sperm donors and at relationships within the family. METHOD All parents who were treated and gave birth to a child through donor insemination from 1997 to 2003 were included in the study...

The characteristics of male and female reproductive tracts and reproductive physiology in camelids are described. An account is given on methods of collection, characteristics and storage of semen, and fertility after artificial insemination (AI) with fresh, liquid-stored and frozen-thawed lamoid and camel semen.