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...flurry of optimism about a successful treatment for some of these would-be mothers. A respected, pioneering obstetrician-gynecologist reported that in three cases a ripe egg cell had been removed from a wife and fertilized in a laboratory by sperm from her husband; then the resulting conceptus had been implanted in the wife's womb and she had given birth to a normal child. The three babies thus conceived are now from twelve to 18 months old. But optimism faded fast with the news that the doctor had failed in 30 other attempts to duplicate his successes...
...right patient. "When I find her, I am in a position to go ahead, but we cannot guarantee that this will be a success the first time." The reason for his doubt was that no one knows precisely what physiological mechanisms prepare the uterus to receive the conceptus and retain...
...excellent Essay "On Teaching Children About Sex" [June 9] leaves out one important point, the responsibility of every potential parent to the "innocent conceptus." Let there be taught a bill of rights for every newborn child: the right 1) to be legitimate; 2) to inherit from both parents a genetic endowment of reasonably good mental and physical health; 3) to be nourished in the uterus by a mother who has not had a damaging illness such as rubella in early pregnancy or taken damaging drugs; 4) to be fed, clothed and protected from birth through adolescence; 5) to be wanted...