Word: semen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are at least 10,000 test-tube children in the U.S. (some doctors estimate as many as 40,000). They have been born in the last 25 years as the result of artificial insemination, with the doctor using semen supplied by a carefully chosen anonymous donor. Their legitimacy has always been a matter for speculation. A Canadian court has ruled donor babies illegitimate, but in the U.S. the question had remained moot. Last week a tangled divorce and custody case projected it into the headlines...
...Chicago's Loyola University, gave Mary Doornbos the custody of her son, but otherwise ruled flatly against her. Artificial donor insemination, he held, is adultery and is contrary to public policy, and the offspring is illegitimate. (He raised no objection to artificial insemination using the husband's semen). Fertility doctors felt that the ruling puts them on the spot. Most of them (except Roman Catholics) have felt that donor insemination was ethically permissible if both husband and wife signed a written request for it. But because they were in a legal no man's land, doctors talked...
...than a few at a time, the Mexican government was determined to keep its herd south of the border, and the U.S. was closed to both French and Mexican cattle because of the virulent foot-and-mouth disease.The U.S. Agriculture Department even refused to allow shipment of frozen Charolais semen into the country. Last week, however, 76 Charolais grazed on pastures near Lafayette, La.-in quarantine, facing possible slaughter or deportation...
...frozen semen system has been used in England with success, and its economics looks promising. Normally, a healthy bull can fertilize two cows a week, but during this period he produces enough semen to fertilize hundreds by artificial insemination. The main trouble has been that unfrozen semen begins to lose its potency after two days and is not much good after seven days. Under the new system, the output of a desirable bull can be stockpiled in the frozen state and be ready for use at any time in any part of the world. None need be wasted because...
...known that frozen semen will keep its viability for at least eight months, but there is a good chance that it will last indefinitely. Then a famous bull could become immortal in a sense: he could keep on fathering calves-as many as 100,000 of them-long after his body had been made into bologna and bone meal...