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...test-tube population. Already it is possible for Reproductive Endocrinologist Martin Quigley of the Cleveland Clinic to speak of "oldfashioned IVF" (in which a woman's eggs are removed, fertilized with her husband's sperm and then placed in her uterus). "The modern way," he notes, "mixes and matches donors and recipients" (see chart page 49). Thus a woman's egg may be fertilized with a donor's sperm, or a donor's egg may be fertilized with the husband's sperm, or, in yet another scenario, the husband and wife contribute their sperm and egg, but the resulting embryo...
...hearing room of Congress's Rayburn Office Building and began writing formulas: the symbols represented ten different ways of making babies. The fourth formula that he chalked up read XM & YD by AΙ with Gestation M, meaning that a married woman is artificially inseminated by a male donor's sperm. The fifth formula, XD & YM by IVF with Gestation M, meant that the beginnings of life could be created through the uniting in a laboratory dish (invitro fertilization) of a woman's donated egg and a married man's sperm. Capron's final version...
...sterile. He died last Christmas, two days after he and Corinne were married in a hospital ceremony. In February the young widow tried to recover the sperm from the bank in order to conceive her dead husband's child. The bank refused, on the grounds that the donor had not left instructions. But the court ruled that Parpalaix had the right to the sperm, which it described as "a secretion containing the seeds of life...
...anonymous donor provided the new organ for a 20-year-old man from Vermont suffering from a congenital heart disorder...
...unit, freezing techniques used in 1981 were rudimentary, and the Rios embryos are probably no longer viable. Moreover, many legal experts say that once the embryos are implanted, they lose any semblance of a claim to the Rios estate. Says Victoria Law Institute Spokesman Chris Wray: "A donor embryo does not belong to the donors of the genetic material but to the parents to whom the child is ultimately born...