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...FRANCE Her Brother's Baby A 62-year-old Frenchwoman gave birth to a child conceived from a donated egg fertilized by her brother's sperm. Jeanine used the brother's sperm to ensure an heir to an estimated $2 million inheritance. A boy, Benoît-David, was born on May 14 after fertility treatment in California. The egg donor, an American woman, also bore a child, a virtual twin girl named Marie-Cécile, conceived using Jeanine's brother Robert's sperm. The story caused widespread controversy...
...STATES G.M. Children Researchers in New Jersey confirmed the births of the world's first genetically modified babies. Thirty children have been conceived through the new fertility treatment, ooplasmic transfer, which takes part of a donor's egg and injects it into an infertile woman's egg along with sperm. Some of the babies carry genetic material from all three "parents...
...take the hormone-laden pills (essentially a super-dose of regular birth control pills) up to 72 hours after intercourse to prevent an unwanted pregnancy. Depending on the stage of a woman's menstrual cycle, the pills will either keep an egg from making itself available to a sperm, or will stop a fertilized egg from implanting itself into the uterus...
...When not killing, raping or pillaging, men have traditionally lain down with women to fertilize eggs. Today, in-vitro unions via withdrawals from well-stocked banks of iced sperm are breaking up that monopoly. The deciphering of dna and the specter of prêt-à-porter people from laboratories is also making the reproduction defense a 10-kg anchor on a supertanker...
...interest but everyone else's. He took the ordinary human vice of myopia and turned it into the very face of evil. It's a narcissism of colossal proportions. The final indignity is that the man who murdered dozens of children - calling them "collateral damage" -considered smuggling his own sperm out of prison so that he could sire children...