Word: testing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...programs. One of the most persuasive practical arguments for volunteering is that it will reduce, by many ergs, the amount of work that bureaucracies must do. Thus, there is the sweetness of having somewhat thwarted the impersonal state. Says Brown Assistant Charles Baldwin: "Proposition 13 will be the real test of the individual citizen to accept the responsibility...
Steptoe revealed that the birth had been filmed; the pictures may prove an important point. Some doctors had observed that if Lesley's fallopian tubes were intact, Steptoe would not have irrefutable proof that Louise was conceived in a test tube. But, Steptoe said with evident satisfaction, "I was able to show that the tubes were absent." Lesley, he explained, had had an operation in 1970 to clear her blocked tubes?but with no success. After she was referred to Steptoe in 1976, he did an exploratory operation and found "there were mere remnants of her tubes." Because these remnants...
...ethical questions raised by scientific advances in procreation can only become more urgent as new techniques are explored and developed. Robert Edwards, Steptoe's partner in the Oldham experiment, has advocated test-tube selection of the offspring's sex, though only to reduce such sex-linked diseases as hemophilia. Politician Abse fears that "we are moving to a time when an embryo purchaser could select in advance the color of the baby's eyes and its probable...
...first public hint of the impending birth of a British test-tube baby came last spring not from London's Fleet Street but from, Manhattan's South Street, in the New York Post-After getting a tip that Britain's Dr. Patrick Steptoe was on the verge of success with an in vitro fertilization technique, Post Reporter Sharon Churcher placed an overseas call to Steptoe. He let it slip that a test-tube baby might soon be born, and Churcher broke the news on April...
...later by Britain's Oldharn Evening Chronicle caught the attention of the sensation-seeking National Enquirer. Within 24 hours, half a dozen reporters left the Enquirer's Lantana, Fla., headquarters and arrived on Steptoe's doorstep to buy worldwide rights to the story of the test-tube baby. When Steptoe hesitated, the Floridians looked to other sources. According to London's Sunday Times, the Enquirer team tried to buy details from nurses at Oldham and District General Hospital and offered $97,500 to the administrator of a research trust for Steptoe...