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...bought Sam as a two-month-old calf for $10,000, soon found that he was perfectly suited for breeding: Sam has the size, color and easy disposition of the best Charolais, has proved unusually effective in passing along those traits to his progeny. A small vial of his semen, enough to impregnate one cow, sells for $10. The Littons sell the semen abroad as well as in the U.S., take in $80,000 a year on such transactions. Looking back on his original investment, Jerry Litton happily calls Sam 951 "an accident...
...Lester Kinsolving of San Francisco: "The contention that the fetus, being viable, is to be regarded as a human being is not only specious but begs the consideration that the sperm is also viable." Not even the most austere Catholic moralist, he points out, suggests that the loss of semen through nocturnal emission represents the taking of life. German Protestant Theologian Joachim Beckmann concedes that the embryo is alive from conception, but firmly insists that certain circumstances -such as pregnancy through rape-allow abortion, just as killing is permissible...
Cincinnati police were convinced that one man had committed all four murders. But all they knew was that he is probably a Negro (negroid hair was found on one victim), that he has O-type blood (determined through tests on the rapist's semen), and that he may drive a bronze and cream 1959 Chevrolet (which was spotted near the areas where Mrs. Hochhausler and Mrs. Messer were killed). Understandably, jittery Cincinnati was beginning to wonder if it is in for a reign of terror like the killing spree that had Boston women besieged for two years...
...state or federal law deals with the problems involved. Indeed, the world's only A.I. law is apparently a 1947 New York City health regulation governing the use of donors, who are commonly anonymous medical students who get a fee of $15 to $25 for supplying semen, which the patient's doctor administers with a vaginal syringe...
...coat: he discovered a chemical means of discrim- inating human from animal blood. The mysteries of blood coagulation were then elucidated-the blood of a person who dies suddenly, it was discovered, coagulates rapidly, but then, for no known reason reliquefies. The pathology of rape was explored-semen, somebody noted, emits a pale blue glow under ultraviolet light. And some brilliant solutions were provided for a major medico-legal problem: How to detect murder disguised as suicide...