Word: embryos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They forgot about Mikey, the embryo (and then infant) with star quality. Sassy but never cynical, Mikey is first seen, through some cunningly simple special effects, as a kind of hot-rodding sperm cruising up the Fallopian tube to the tune of the Beach Boys' I Get Around. "The sperm comes on and people go crazy," says Jonathan Krane, the film's producer. "From then on they're laughing at the picture." Not quite. They're laughing with it, in the easy, conspiratorial laughter any domestic comedy would kill...
Young based his ruling on the testimony of Dr. Jerome Lejeune, a French specialist in human genetics who testified that the seven embryos each have unique characteristics that distinguish them as human beings. Three other experts argued that the embryos possess only the potential for life. Their views echo those of professional groups like the American Fertility Society, whose ethical committee in 1986 concluded that "the pre-embryo deserves respect greater than that accorded to human tissue but not the respect accorded to actual persons...
Tennessee was not the only site of an embryo dispute. Last week Risa and Steven York of California quietly settled their lawsuit against the Virginia institute holding their frozen embryo. The institute agreed to release the cells to the Yorks for implantation on the West Coast if it would not be held responsible for what happens when it surrenders custody...
...aware, this is the first judicial decision which has declared an embryo a human being," said Charles Clifford, Mr. Davis' attorney, adding that he would ask the court to prevent his client's ex-wife from implanting the embryos until appeals are settled...
...From fertilization, the cells of a human embryo are differentiated, unique and specialized to the highest degree of distinction," the judge said. Thus, he said, "human life begins at conception...