Desperate for a baby, infertile mothers are advertising for egg donors on the web. And as this special Mail investigation shows, money-hungry young women are rushing to cash in on their misery.
In the News
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August 17th, 2009
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August 17th, 2009
More than half a million people in the UK die every year, yet death is the one fact of life we refuse to confront. As we debate the morality of assisted suicide, five people with terminal illnesses movingly discuss what it really means to die: the despair, anger, hope ? even humour.
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August 17th, 2009
When Alison Pollard-Mansergh found out she was expecting her fourth child, she was overjoyed. Five months into her pregnancy, however, doctors broke the devastating news she had cancer. An Australian of Scots decent, Alison, who was 37 at the time, had always known she was at risk from the disease - her gran had died after a malignant melanoma spread. But she was stunned to learn she was fighting the cancer as her unborn child grew inside her.
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August 17th, 2009
An advertising campaign warning of the risks of driving after taking drugs is being launched in England and Wales.
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August 17th, 2009
A London council has backtracked on rules forcing swimmers to cover up at a public pool to avoid offending Muslims.
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August 17th, 2009
...some researchers are raising red flags that youngsters conceived this unnatural way could experience serious health problems in the future.
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August 15th, 2009
Jim Fitzpatrick MP and his wife were quite right to leave a wedding because it was segregated by sex, says Alasdair Palmer.
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August 15th, 2009
A street preacher is at the centre of a row over freedom of speech after police threatened to arrest him for reading the Bible in public.
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August 14th, 2009
Abortions were carried out on almost 100 girls aged 14 or younger last year in Scotland, figures have shown.
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August 14th, 2009
Officials behind the ?Summer of Love? scheme claim it educates children and reduces the rate of teenage pregnancies.