Word: vitro
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...average cost of one test-tube baby is more than $72,000, according to a study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine. A single attempt at in-vitro fertilization carries a price tag of $8,000, but because of the procedure's high rate of failure, the actual cost is multiplied many times over by repeated attempts. Only about 1 of 10 women gets pregnant with the first in-vitro procedure, and the odds only grow longer after that first...
...very excited about the results," she said. "First we observed these trends with invitro samples. But now we have bridged the gap between in-vitro and in-vivo samples...
...basis of age. She went to Italy, where gynecologist Dr. Severino Antinori says he has helped 47 women over the age of 50 give birth at his Rome clinic. In the U.S. most doctors and clinics have already answered the question by parceling out the limited space in in-vitro fertilization programs to women under 45 on the grounds that younger women are more likely to succeed in the program and would be less prone to complications...
Besides, if we truly believed in the absolute uniqueness of each individual, there would be none of this unseemly eagerness to reproduce one's own particular genome. What is it, after all, that drives people to in vitro rather than adoption? Deep down, we don't want to believe we are each unique, one-time-only events in the universe. We hope to happen again and again. And when the technology arrives for cloning adult individuals, genetic immortality should be within reach of the average multimillionaire. Ross Perot will be followed by a flock of little re-Rosses...
...their "originals," as the case may be), since when has it been illegal to use one person as a vehicle for the ambitions of another? If we don't yet breed children for their SAT scores, there is a whole class of people, heavily overlapping with the in vitro class, who coach their toddlers to get into the nursery schools that offer a fast track to Harvard. You don't have to have been born in a test tube to be an extension of someone else...