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...accommodationists review the history of innovation. In the '50s, when artificial insemination with donor semen was introduced, many ethicists said it separated procreation from marriage in a destructive way. Pope Pius XII, who denounced artificial insemination even from husband to wife, declared, "To reduce the cohabitation of married persons and the conjugal act to a mere organic function for the transmission of the germ of life would be to convert the domestic hearth, sanctuary of the family, into nothing more than a biological laboratory." When Louise Brown, the first test-tube baby, was born in England in July 1978, alarmists...
...basis for the new assay, PSA, is a protein produced by cells on the surface of the prostate and thought to play a role in preventing semen from coagulating. An enlarged prostate (due to cancer or other problems) leads to higher levels of PSA in the blood. Doctors already use PSA tests to monitor the effectiveness of prostate-cancer therapies, such as irradiation or hormonal treatments. Some researchers have argued that the exams should replace much more expensive bone scans as a way of determining how far the cancer has spread...
...other feminists. However, she displays a polemical and sarcastic flair ("theology increasingly became the business of bachelors") and merrily marshals rather selective evidence of priestly misogyny through the ages. One 12th century divine urged men to remember that a pretty woman starts as "a foul-smelling drop of semen" and is destined to be "food for worms." Ranke- Heinemann's acerbic wit is less impressive when she turns to the modern era. She cannot, for instance, bring herself to acknowledge Pope John Paul II's praise of sexual pleasure within marriage...
...millions of infertile couples. Surrogates' rights advocates were outraged. "We are entering into very dangerous times if we allow this decision to stand," said Ramona Ripston, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California. Countered the Calverts' attorney, Christian Van Deusen: "Males can sell their semen. Why can't women as a matter of law become nine-month foster mothers by carrying another couple's child...
Fuji, Judo, Mazda and Ryusho are dead but not forgotten. The four Wagyu bulls, smuggled from their native Japan to the U.S. in 1972, left a valuable legacy for Texas cattleman Don Lively. His stockpile of semen from the bulls and their descendants, which are believed to be the only strain ever to leave Japan, is worth $2 million. The cattle produce tender Kobe beef, a delicacy that sells in Japan for as much as $180 per lb. Lively and his partner have sold $1 million worth of the semen at $250 a vial, in contrast...