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Even test-tube babies, once the stuff of science fiction, are now not only possible, but probable. Dr. Landrum Shettles of Columbia University and Dr. Daniele Petrucci of Bologna, Italy, have shown that considerable growth is possible in test tubes. Shettles has kept fertilized ova growing for six days, the point at which they would normally attach themselves to the lining of the uterus. Petrucci kept a fertilized egg alive and growing for nearly two months...
...article "The Glass Womb" [which described the fertilization of a human egg on glass slides] made me wince at the way some men can tamper with the laws of nature and morality as they please, and appear justified in doing so. I think there is a point that Dr. Petrucci has failed to realize: if Dr. Petrucci is actually growing human life, he will be committing murder each time he kills one of the specimens...
...bearded Surgeon Petrucci, 38, and his coworkers, Drs. Laura de Pauli and Raffaele Bernabeo, artificial insemination started as a sideline. They began growing test-tube human embryos three years ago, in a tiny lab behind Petrucci's Bologna office, to get newborn cells for experiments in antibody response to transplanted tissue. "We had no intention of creating a 'man in the box,' " says Dr. Petrucci. "Far from it. The problem today is to limit births, not increase them." The doctors collected live ova from Petrucci's female patients during hysterectomy or after sudden death. Since...
...insemination outside the human body is not new; Harvard's Dr. John Rock first achieved it in 1944. What is remarkable is that Dr. Petrucci kept one fertilized egg alive for 29 days, and had to kill it because it was growing "monstrous." U.S. scientists have managed a test-tube life span of six days...
Could the embryos have developed further-into human beings? "It is technically possible," answered Dr. Petrucci. '"We have overcome three obstacles that were held to be insurmountable: temperature, gas exchange and metabolism." Petrucci's suggestion stunned the Roman Catholic Church. Its plain reply: the experiments should be stopped. At week's end, bowing to pressure, Catholic Petrucci announced that he was leaving for a vacation in Switzerland...