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The Military Times reports: The departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs now provide in vitro fertilization services to all eligible beneficiaries regardless of their marital status, finalizing changes promised by the federal agencies earlier this year. The new policies allow anyone who has service-connected infertility to use either department’s program, lifting previous requirements that only married, heterosexual couples using their …

The original Sunday Times article is behind a paywall. The Daily Mail recaps: Babies with two fathers or two mothers could become a reality after a breakthrough by researchers at Cambridge. They have shown that it is possible to make human egg and sperm cells using skin from two adults of the same sex. The development could help men and …

If God wants you to have a baby, he’ll give you one from regular fucking. Any other way to get a baby? That’s from Satan. Speaking at the end of three-day convention on diagnosing and treating infertility at the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI slammed artificial procreation and fertility treatments. Marriage was the only place to create a human being, he …

(Via JMG reader Al)

Male fertility probably isn’t a major concern for most of you, but scientists say they’ve found a new predictor for low sperm count. It’s the length of your taint. SRSLY. That distance, measured from the anus to the underside of the scrotum, is linked to male fertility, including semen volume and sperm count, the study found. The shorter the AGD, …

Using stem cell technology, scientists have been able to create male and female baby mice from two male parents. Most notably for us here, the breakthrough raises the possibility of same-sex couples having children genetically related to both parents. In the work reported today, the Behringer team manipulated fibroblasts from a male (XY) mouse fetus to produce an induced pluripotent …

A fascinating article in the Telegraph UK points out that outside of age and marital status, religiosity is the greatest predictor of how many children a European woman will produce. Since the power of Christ isn’t compelling atheists to breed, they crank out relatively fewer refusniks. Data is rare in this area, but what they do have suggests that atheists …