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Thirsty for atomic news, good or bad, the Manhattan dailies last week pounced on some remarks made by Soviet scientific adviser Semen P. Alexandrov. who is a bigwig at Moscow's Central Institute of Research in Non-Ferrous Metals, and was one of Russia's two official witnesses at Bikini. It might be useful, Professor Alexandrov had suggested, to have a "balance sheet" which would show the amount of each nation's raw material and the efficiency of mining methods. It might also be useful to compare notes on how uranium and thorium deposits were classified. Russia...
Artificial insemination has many advantages. On the average dairy farm a bull is dangerous, expensive to keep, and his capacities are rarely put to full use. It is obviously simpler to call a veterinarian and have him serve the cow with one cubic centimeter of high-grade semen in a gelatine capsule or a special syringe. Membership in a typical breeding association costs only $5 a year, plus $6 a year per cow (which entitles each cow to three services a year if necessary...
...first U.S. precedent in a curious legal problem. The first reported case of human artificial insemination occurred in England in 1790, when Dr. John Hunter, consulted by a "linen draper in the Strand" suffering from a deformity of the urethra, decided to inject the draper's wife with semen by means of a syringe. The operation produced a normal pregnancy. Since then moralists have viewed the process with increasing alarm, while visionary eugenists have hailed the prospects (e.g., the indefinite perpetuation of great men through preservation of their frozen semen for generation after generation of selected mothers). Today, however...
When both partners are fertile, but coitus or conception is prevented by some structural abnormality, artificial insemination may be a simple means to parenthood. The complications-legaland moral-set in when the wife of a sterile husband is impregnated by semen from another...
Adultery? Blackmail? Clinically, such inseminations have been notably successful. Johns Hopkins' Dr. Alan Guttmacher has reported success in no less than 20 out of 36 attempts. But the problem of possible charges of adultery against the mother, illegitimacy against the child, blackmail by donors of semen remains unsolved. For their own as well as their patients' protection, U.S. doctors usually seek refuge in a rigmarole of anonymity and secrecy...