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...Surgeon William Baumgartner sutured it piggyback over Couch's own ailing heart. By 10 a.m. the exhausted physicians had completed their tasks and made American medical history. It marked the first time in the U.S. that a living individual had donated his heart, in what is termed a "domino donor" organ exchange. Officials at London's Harefield Hospital revealed last week that Dr. Magdi Yacoub had actually been first to use the domino approach there in April...
...donation, for 44 cents, came from a woman who confessed to reusing two postage stamps. A gift of $2,000 came from an anonymous donor who wanted to clear his conscience with "the IRS and with God." The largest deposit -- $50,000 from a man who gave no reason for sending the money -- helped to set a new record for contributions to the Federal Government's "conscience fund," the account made up of donations from guilt-ridden citizens. In 1986 the fund tallied $380,929.49 -- greater than any year since the fund was established in 1811, when an anonymous donor...
ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION. This is the oldest and by far the most common of the techniques prohibited. The Instruction not only opposes the introduction into a womb of sperm from a "third party" donor other than the husband but rejects the use of a husband's sperm. The first condemnation of artificial insemination came in a 1949 speech by Pope Pius XII, but the teaching has been ignored by many Catholic couples and disputed by some theologians...
Many Protestants share the Vatican's alarm over the ever braver worlds of human reproduction that advanced biomedical techniques have made possible. Clinics are now assisting in fertilizations involving donor sperm, donor eggs, donor embryos, single women and lesbian couples. Lawyer George Annas, professor of health law at Boston University's School of Medicine, notes the possibility that a child could have five different parents: the father who donates sperm, the mother who produces the ovum, the mother who provides the womb, and the mother and the father who raise the child...
...there is anyone out there who still imagines that modernism is not the official culture of our day, not the secular religion of the U.S., this project will dispel those last illusions. The wing, named for the late co- founder of the Reader's Digest, who was the largest donor, cost $26 million to build and will require an additional $2 million a year for operating expenses. One does not go spending such amounts on the marginal and the controversial -- on what modernism used to be when the chairman of the Met's 20th century department, William S. Lieberman...