New Reproductive Technologies

Farida Akhter || Tuesday 26 October 2010 Nobel Prize for IVF or dehumanizing technology? Robert G. Edwards is awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize for physiology/ medicine for the development of human in vitro fertilization (IVF) therapy. According to the Press release of the Nobel Committee “His achievements have made it possible to treat infertility, a medical condition afflicting a large proportion of humanity including more than 10% of all couples worldwide”. This may seem to be a “good news”, but the question is, for whom? From a women’s perspective, this is a reward for commercially using women’s desperate situation to prove her ability to procreate in this patriarchal world. Robert Edwards unfortunately has only re-established the fact that a woman has no value unless she can pro...

Farida Akhter || Thursday 25 March 2010 Unregulated Trade Over Infertility of Women In Bangladesh population is seen as the cause of all problems including socio-economic, political, environmental and security in the conventional or mainstream discourses. In recent years it is being related to risks associated with climate change. often with bizarre arguments to control number of peoples in Bangladesh. Consequently it is argued that fertility of women must be controlled as a "solution" through use of temporary and permanent contraceptive methods. While fertility of women is being controlled by the Bangladesh government, bilateral and mulilatral development partners, the infertility has become a matter of trade and business in the last decade. It has also become a big show of ...