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...heart goes out to Donna Fasano. She's the New York City woman who was reluctantly thrust into the headlines last week because of an infertility treatment mix-up that impregnated her with two embryos: one created by her egg and her husband's sperm, the other by an African-American couple who had been seeing the same specialist at the same time. She carried both embryos to term, giving birth to two beautiful but noticeably different boys and raising them for three months, during which time they shared the same crib, the same swing, the same parents. Then when...
...hundreds of reporters descended on the sleepy English mill town of Oldham, the 65-year-old obstetrician delivered the world's first "test-tube baby," a healthy, 5-lb. 12-oz. girl aptly named Louise Joy Brown. Conceived in a lab dish, or in vitro, from the egg and sperm of a working-class couple who had tried for years to have a child, she seemed as miraculous as any baby in 2,000 years...
...ideas in a series of articles and speeches. Regularly interrupted by boos and catcalls, he argued that remedial educational programs were a waste of time. He suggested that individuals with IQs below 100 be paid to undergo voluntary sterilization. He donated openly and repeatedly to a so-called Nobel sperm bank designed to pass on the genes of geniuses. He filed a $1.25 million libel suit against the Atlanta Constitution, which had compared his ideas to Nazi genetic experiments; the jury awarded him $1 in damages. He ran for the U.S. Senate on the dysgenics platform and came in eighth...
What about the brave new medically created babies who are the product of purchased eggs or sperm? If there are laws allowing adoptees to have access to their birth parents, there should be access for all people to records of their biological parentage. I hope legislators keep these people's rights in mind. PEG LOPATA Francestown...
...examining the extension schools to the buying and selling of eggs,sperm and body parts," Sandel said. "My questionis, 'Are there some things money...