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...treating their new baby daughter as a medical oddity. Like every child ever conceived and born, the so-called test-tube baby [July 31] spent about nine months in utero and entered the world in a manner acceptable to society and medicine. Louise Brown was conceived in a Petri dish, not a test tube, and she developed and was born from within her natural mother's womb. To herald this girl as a test-tube baby only perpetuates the myth that we are entering a Huxleian world of callous indifference to childbirth and motherhood. It's a glorious...
Slim pickings on the music scene this week. If your ears can handle it, you can see Johnny Winter at the Paradise (254-2052) Friday and Saturday. And if your pocketbook can take it, you can dish out $7 to hear The Ritchie Family play all their disco hits at Boston-Boston...
Finally, last Nov. 10, Steptoe extracted an egg from one of Lesley's ovaries, and placed it in a laboratory dish. Edwards then fertilized the egg with John Brown's sperm. Two and a half to three days later, when the egg had undergone three cell divisions, it was placed in Lesley's uterus. Said Edwards about Baby Louise: "The last time I saw her, she was a beautiful eight-celled embryo...
...placed in a dish containing blood serum and nutrients, to which sperm is added for fertilization...
...Once an egg is fertilized by one of the many spermatozoa, it is then transferred to another dish of blood serum and sustaining nutrients. For the next three to six days, the fertilized egg divides, creating a cluster of cells called a blastocyst...