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...federal poverty level--$1,138 a month for a family of three. So far, a dozen patients have enrolled. Nancy Cameron Dickinson, 49, whose family income was less than $16,000 last year, weeded the hospital's garden beds and helped with landscaping to pay $800 she owed after Fallopian-tube surgery. Scott Smith, 29, an uninsured ski instructor, painted the ambulance bays to pay the $5,300 surgical bill he incurred after breaking his leg in a ski accident. A local florist is working off $275 she owed for a colonoscopy by providing a bouquet for the lobby each...
...trial judge ruled for Maureen, holding that once the sperm and ovum are united--whether "in the private darkness of a Fallopian tube or the public glare of a Petri dish"--a human life has begun and it is the woman's decision whether or not to let it proceed. But the intermediate appellate court took Steven's side, rejecting the notion that the embryos are human life and emphasizing the consent form that both Kasses had signed...
...Sheila and Rick Burski of Rice, Minn., the outcome was equally happy. Because Sheila's fallopian tubes were blocked, a problem in about 35% of female-infertility cases, IVF was the only option. The first try at the Midwest Center for Reproductive Health in Minneapolis ended in a miscarriage, and the second, using leftover embryos that had been frozen, didn't take at all. "We had some real downer weeks, particularly after the second attempt," says Rick, an excavation contractor...
...first in vitro baby in the U.S. was born three years later, and since then the procedure has been responsible for 26,000 more births in America alone. For women with blocked or scarred Fallopian tubes that prevent eggs from reaching the uterus, the technology has been a godsend. But for others, particularly those in whom doctors cannot find the reason for infertility, in vitro can be an exercise in frustration. It is expensive (about $7,800 for each attempt, three or four of which are often needed to achieve success) and not covered by many insurance plans...
...almost absurdly inefficient. During copulation, a man expels tens of millions of sperm, with considerable force, into his partner's vaginal canal. Despite the head start, most of the tiny, tadpole-shape, self-propelled cells never come within shouting distance of the woman's egg, floating deep inside the Fallopian tube. And if one does finally complete the journey, it may or may not have the energy left for fertilization...