Word: clinically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chief concern. In 1985, Patti Frustaci of Orange, Calif., gave birth to septuplets; one was stillborn, and three died within 19 days. Cerebral palsy and retardation had been diagnosed by the time the three survivors reached age 3. Ultimately, the family won a $2.7 million settlement against the clinic and the doctor who prescribed fertility drugs for Frustaci. She came back for further treatments, however, and this time gave birth to robust twins. She has since left her family; the children are being raised by their father...
...clasped tightly together, in the urgent, hushed murmurs of their voices. And the evidence that their hope may be realized is displayed prominently all around them: the hallway is lined with bulletin boards covered with the photographs of babies born to men and women who have sat in the clinic over the years...
...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...
...freezing is just one of the fertility breakthroughs that are moving through the pipeline from lab to clinic. Doctors are removing and cold-storing ovarian and testicular tissue for later reimplantation, coaxing test-tube embryos to grow stronger before they are put into the womb, even performing microscopic surgery to transfer chromosomes from old, worn-out eggs into young, robust ones. All these techniques have a single purpose: to beat the odds nature has stacked against a woman's ability to bear children...
...students beat such a hasty retreat? The Cult Hotline and Clinic in New York City has received a dozen complaints from family members concerned about their relatives' overzealous commitment to the center. Students often spend Jewish holidays with Berg; a few become hevra, volunteers who live and work at center facilities. "My husband took our daughters there," says a Long Island, N.Y., homemaker. "My eight-year-old said, 'When you look into Rabbi Berg's eyes, you see his soul, and he's beautiful.' I ask you, is that normal?" Their marriage fell apart after her husband insisted on spending...