In february 2026 SMER published the report Assisted reproduction – opportunities and choices. The purpose of the report is to provide a broad, up-to-date overview of the area, with a particular focus on developments in methods, technologies and practices in recent years.

In a new opinion, the Swedish National Council on Medical Ethics offers ethical guidance on the proper management of infants born after 22 to 23 weeks of gestation, including the rights of the parents in the decision-making process.

This episode of Voices on bioethics focuses on mitochondrial donation. Andy Greenfield is an honorary research fellow at Oxford University and an expert on mitochondrial donation and the ethics of assisted reproduction. In this episode he’ll guide us through the most common objections to mitochondrial donation to give us an insight into the ethical questions that surround the method.

Françoise Baylis is Distinguished Research Professor Emerita, Dalhousie University. Take a few minutes to discover her distinction between “wants” and “needs” in reproductive health and how she thinks society should respond to that. She also shares her prediction about the future of women’s rights over the next decade.