Word: sperms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Payment of fees to mothers who put their children up for adoption is illegal in most states, but Keane thinks surrogate motherhood-using the husband's sperm-is a special case. This month he and an associate, Attorney Robert Harrison, took the issue to court; they asked a Wayne County circuit court judge to enjoin the state attorney general from interfering in the payment of fees to surrogate mothers. Says Harrison: "The question is, does the state have sufficient interest in this entire scheme which overrides the right of privacy and the right to bear and beget children...
...coming?' " Marilu laughs. "And John would look over his shoulder and say, 'No, I don't think so.' " Another acquaintance, trying to summon an example of the Travolta wit, could recall only his remark to the husband of a very pregnant wife: "Boy, you must have a high sperm count...
...inveterate doodler, Richardson, who also served as Attorney General in the Richard Nixon administration until the infamous Saturday Night Massacre, loaded his self-portrait with symbolism. He is painted into a corner, Richardson pointed out, but signal flags in the background impart the message: "I expect to refloat." Tiny sperm whales on his blue necktie recall the adage, "The spouting whale gets harpooned." Quipped Richardson of his canvas: "You may ask yourself, 'Why not the best?' The answer, of course, is that it's too expensive...
...easily accepted. "I couldn't believe it at first myself," says the psychiatrist, who was trained as a neo-Freudian. "Now I've made a 180° turnaround. Today I believe that the major determination of who we are as people is pretty much decided when the sperm meets...
Wachtel, 40, a former Air Force jet instructor-pilot who only started studying immunology in his 30s, does not yet know how the wrong chromosomes acquire the male gene; possibly the error is the result of a mutation or an accidental transfer of genes between chromosomes while the sperm are being produced in the father's testes. In any case, the test has already been put to important clinical use. At New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, for example, a two-year-old child with an enlarged clitoris but a seemingly normal XX chromosome pattern was tested...