Word: sperms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their legal custody. In addition, they have paid an agency fee of $7,500 and are responsible for up to $4,000 in doctors' fees, lab tests, legal costs, maternity clothes and other expenses. In April, Valerie became pregnant after just one insemination with Aaron's sperm. Mandy says she was speechless with joy when she heard the news...
...Congress's Rayburn Office Building and began writing formulas: the symbols represented ten different ways of making babies. The fourth formula that he chalked up read XM & YD by AΙ with Gestation M, meaning that a married woman is artificially inseminated by a male donor's sperm. The fifth formula, XD & YM by IVF with Gestation M, meant that the beginnings of life could be created through the uniting in a laboratory dish (invitro fertilization) of a woman's donated egg and a married man's sperm. Capron's final version...
...example: > Artificial insemination by donor (AID), or a woman being inseminated by a donor's sperm, has been widely practiced since the 1960s and has led to about 250,000 births in the U.S. alone, but the law is only gradually accepting it. A New York court ruled in 1963 that a child born by AID was illegitimate even if the mother's husband consented; another New York court ruled the opposite a decade later. Now 25 states, including New York, have statutes governing AID babies, recognizing them as the legitimate children of mother and her husband (providing...
...infertility specialist removed an egg from Mrs. Del Zio, put it in a container and handed it to her husband, who raced across town in a taxi to deliver it to the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. There, another doctor fertilized it with some of Del Zio's sperm and stored it in an incubator. The next day the hospital doctor was furiously scolded by his superior, Dr. Raymond Vande Wiele, who not only accused him of dangerous and unethical practices but also stopped the experiment entirely by unsealing the incubated container, thus killing the embryo. The couple sued...
...most striking illustration of Europe's legal confusion is the case of Corinne Parpalaix, 22, a secretary in the Marseille police department, whose husband died of cancer last year after depositing sperm in a sperm bank. Parpalaix asked for the sperm so that she could be impregnated with it, but the bank refused on the grounds that the dead man had left no instructions on what he wanted done. The press clucked; the church frowned; Parpalaix sued...