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Given the growing popularity of in-vitro fertilization, it was just a matter of time before a case like this one arose. During nine years of marriage, Junior Davis, 30, and his wife Mary Sue, 28, tried repeatedly and unsuccessfully to have a child. That experience led the couple six years ago to a fertility clinic in Knoxville, where eggs taken from Mrs. Davis were fertilized in a laboratory with her husband's semen...
Though there is only about a 15% chance that an implanted egg will result in childbirth, in-vitro techniques have been responsible for more than 5,000 births in the U.S. since 1978. The Davis case is the first battle for possession of the eggs. Legal experts have been warning that couples who enter fertility programs should draw up agreements dictating the fate of such eggs should there be a death or divorce. Says Ellen Wright Clayton, assistant professor of law and pediatrics at Vanderbilt University: "Fertilized eggs are going to give rise to a whole new set of legal...
...only eleven years ago that Louise Brown became the first baby to start life outside a mother's womb. Since then, the business of in-vitro fertilization -- conception in a test tube -- has grown even faster than Louise has. Some 200 IVF clinics have sprung up in the U.S., and they have been responsible for more than 5,000 births. The surging demand stems from the high incidence of infertility: about 1 married couple in 12 has not been able to conceive a child despite a year of trying. IVF dangles one last shred of hope before some of these...
...obstetrics waiting room at Norfolk's in-vitro clinic, a woman sits crying. Thirty-year-old Michel Jones and her husband Richard, 33, a welder at the Norfolk Navy yard, have been through the program four times, without success. Now their insurance company is refusing to pay for another attempt, and says Richard indignantly, "they even want their money back for the first three times." On a bulletin board in the room is a sign giving the schedule for blood tests, ultrasound and other medical exams. Beside it hangs a small picture of a soaring bird and the message...
...In-vitro fertilization (IVF) now accounts for about 100 babies in the U.S., but there are virtually no new laws to deal with this method of conception. In the wake of the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, however, many states passed laws forbidding or limiting "experimentation" with fetuses. Of the 25 such state laws, eleven specifically apply to embryos; doctors in some of these states fear that they might be prosecuted for carrying out the IVF, particularly if the technique fails, as it does about four times out of five. And six states have laws that seem...