MTR launching critical new surrogacy book Canberra Tuesday

I’m honored to be launching the latest book by a woman who is (with Susan Hawthorne) not only my own publisher but who I count as one of my dearest friends. Dr. Renate Klein, author, researcher, biologist, social scientist, and feminist activist of 30 years.  Renate – whose work was my first introduction to feminist […]

Don’t underestimate the hardship of IVF: one couple’s story

Our finances were crippled, our mental health shattered  As I wrote in my Sunday Herald Sun piece on the weekend, we rarely hear from those who don’t end up with a baby at the end of the line. We mostly hear the success stories. So I thought it important to give this letter some prominence here. […]

Big business of IVF has a human cost

MTR in Sunday Herald Sun I DON’T want to discuss the personal IVF journey of Tony Abbott’s staffer Peta Credlin. Others can examine the politics of the Opposition Leader’s foray into the issue this past week. But there is a new opportunity to talk about IVF. It is difficult to criticise a procedure seen as […]