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...question, the Archbishop of Canterbury 32 months ago appointed a 13-member commission, headed by the Rt. Rev. John W. C. Wand, Lord Bishop of London, and including two lawyers and six doctors. Last week their conclusions were in: artificial insemination was permissible when the husband was the donor, but not otherwise...
Though artificial conception through extramarital donorship, reported the commission, "would appear to avoid the worst part of adultery-the personal betrayal of the spouse . . . the part of the unknown donor must seem an unlawful intrusion...
Insemination by donor, the commission decided, is a "breach of the marriage." The bald term adultery was avoided to save the sensibilities of some churchgoing practicers of donor conceptions who might not have suspected that they were doing anything wrong...
...drew out a total of 60 cubic centimeters of blood in the two needles, about a tenth of what the average blood donor loses. By calculating the amount of .nitrous oxide that is absorbed by the brain, he determined the rate of blood flow. Thus he was able to measure the way the brain uses up its chief sources of energy: oxygen and glucose. Already he has demonstrated that unconscious patients use only half the normal amount of oxygen and glucose, that schizophrenics use as much oxygen for their irrational thinking as a sane person does for normal thinking...
...seventeen of them, the hopeful applicant must bear the same name as the donor or one of his parents or even ancestors dating back as far as 1650. The William Stanislaus Murphy Fund, for instance is, "For the collegiate education of any young man or men named Murphy, who in the judgment of the Faculty, should prove deserving of this kind of encouragement...