Word: clinically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...test-tube clinic...
...clinic, at Norfolk General Hospital, will be directed by Drs. Howard Jones Jr. and Georgeanna Seegar Jones, a well-known husband-and-wife obstetrical and gynecological team, as part of the fertility program at Eastern Virginia Medical School. They will use a variation of the technique developed by British Scientists Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards. An egg will be removed, through a small incision in the abdomen, from the ovary of a woman whose fallopian tubes are either hopelessly blocked or too damaged to permit natural fertilization. Then it will be placed in a laboratory dish with the husband...
Right-to-lifers are far from pleased. Charles Dean Jr., president of the Tidewater chapter of the Virginia Society for Human Life, which heatedly attacked the clinic proposal at two public hearings, vowed to continue the fight in court. The group contends that in vitro fertilization can lead to abortion since flawed embryos will be destroyed before or after implantation. Objections have also been voiced in other quarters. Last week Harvard Biologist Ruth Hubbard, an outspoken feminist, charged that "the push toward this technology reinforces the all-too-prevalent view in our society that women's lives are unfulfilled...
...superboom in housing would have occurred: a second home would be as ordinary as a second car. Vertical takeoff planes would be much in use. A safe fast-breeder reactor would be perfected. Space-shuttle flights would be regularly scheduled. Anticancer vaccine would be available at the neighborhood clinic. Ugly transmission lines would all be underground. People would be shopping by two-way cable television. Teaching machines would be widely used. Office work would be mostly automated. An electronic control lane for trucks and buses would make passenger cars safer on the highways...