Word: birthed
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...lives have been ruined by the exploitation we suffered at the hands of the government of Ontario, our place of birth. We were displayed as a curiosity three times a day for millions of tourists. To this day we receive letters from all over the world. To all those who have expressed their support in light of the abuse we have endured, we say thank you. And to those who would seek to exploit the growing fame of these children, we say beware...
...pictures that would make clear how R.B.A. stands out from other fertility practices has never been posted. In October, a patient here gave birth to twin boys conceived from eggs--another woman's--that had been frozen for more than two years. Unlike Bobbi McCaughey, this woman could not be helped by fertility drugs. She had suffered ovarian failure and could produce no eggs, no matter how much medication she took. Her best option would have been to accept a fresh egg from a donor. But she had agreed to this experimental procedure instead, on the condition that her privacy...
...this birth--the first of its kind in the U.S. and one of the first in the world--wasn't just any breakthrough. A woman's eggs are more fragile than a man's sperm, and over the years, attempts to freeze and thaw them have almost always ended in failure. R.B.A.'s success, though it may not have been quite as dramatic as the birth of septuplets, within days had made headlines all over the world. Within weeks, the Atlanta clinic had fielded calls from fertility experts and infertile couples as far away as England and Germany...
After six unsuccessful tries, the Bielickis decided to go for what Anita calls "the whole banana"--in-vitro fertilization at Chicago's Center for Human Reproduction. It worked the first time, and in 1993 Anita gave birth to Andrea. Later attempts were unsuccessful, so the following year they tried ICSI. Result: their second daughter, Elizabeth...
Grifo's eggs have not yet resulted in any births, but an upside-down version of the procedure has succeeded. At the St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, N.J., Drs. Richard Scott and Jacques Cohen have been taking cytoplasm--the nonnuclear part of a cell--out of young women's eggs and injecting it into the eggs of older women. One egg with refurbished cyotoplasm has grown into babyhood; another birth is expected next spring...