Why can a man freely decide when to destroy frozen sperm and a woman cannot do so with her eggs? This anomaly, established in current law, was debated this Tuesday afternoon in Congress, which will take a first step to eliminate this "discrimination". An initiative by the PSOE that the plenary will take into consideration and which proposes to equate the regulation on the cryopreservation of oocytes to that of semen in such a way that women are not forced to preserve them throughout their fertile lives. Today, the only way to destroy them is by obtaining the opinion of two experts stating that the woman can no longer become pregnant. On the other hand, a man can decide at any time and without any oversight if he wants to dispose of his semen deposited in biobanks. Vox is the only party that has positioned itself against the proposal.

They obtained more than 700 boxes of fertility treatments at no cost using over 500 forged prescriptions. They then sold the drugs below market price to women who couldn't afford them and sought alternatives on websites like Wallapop and Milanuncios. This public healthcare fraud, targeting women trying to become mothers, amounts to €226,000. Those implicated included a primary care center employee and a pharmacist from Sant Adrià de Besòs, the director of a fertility clinic in Palma, and two women from Seville, a mother and daughter. Although almost all of them tried to evade responsibility by presenting themselves as victims of the scam, all five have been convicted. sentenced to barely minimum terms a decade after the fraud with a sentence handed down a year after the trial.

Behind the white, consensus-based image that Jennifer Aniston always projects lies a star who doesn't mind stepping in puddles and getting up to her waist in mud if she believes the cause is worth it. She made this clear once again this week in an interview with the British edition of the magazine. Harper's Bazaar, where she hasn't held back when it comes to addressing such delicate topics as infertility, mental health issues, or the gaps hidden behind the word success.

The inability of women to conceive began to be treated as a medical issue nearly two hundred years ago. However, it hasn't been until the last four decades that science has made a push to find solutions to infertility linked to age or caused by the side effects of treatments for certain diseases such as cancer. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that one in six people worldwide will experience this problem in their lifetime, and in the case of women, research has opened up promising avenues. One example is the study published this Tuesday in Nature Communications The team of American biologist Shoukhrat Mitalipov, a pioneer in reproductive research, has proven that, in the laboratory, human skin cells can be used to produce fertilizable eggs using an innovative technique.

We read in theNow Balearic Islands this headline: "Finding out at 37 that we are the daughter of a sperm donor made me go through a very traumatic process.". This is said by a woman with a fictitious name, who also explains that she has had to "go through a genetic duel alone", as if "a part of her had died", she says. And she adds: "I looked at myself in the mirror and it was hard to recognise myself". She also does not understand why "only the private consultation where the parents will have her progenitor" (she calls the donor that).