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...saddest things about the saga of Nadya Suleman, or Octomom, was her seeming belief that having octuplets via in vitro fertilization would make her beloved like Angelina Jolie. Fat chance. To be a parent is less to be loved than to be judged--even if you haven't fired your charity nannies and disappointed Dr. Phil. You are feeding your kids wrong, teaching them wrong, putting them to bed wrong. Having had 14 kids, Suleman is judged fourteenfold...
...Earlier this year, in vitro fertilization was used to screen for a faulty BRCA1 gene that increases one’s susceptibility for breast cancer, while researchers at Cambridge University claim that a pre-natal screening for autism will soon be possible. Although both steps seem to represent an innocuous effort to prevent devastating medical conditions, the extended use of pre-natal screening raises many serious ethical questions...
...case of the so-called Octomom continues to spur outrage and debate over the use of in vitro fertilization (IVF) in the U.S., new research suggests that the most effective and inexpensive IVF method may also be the least likely to result in dangerous multiple births...
...Zdravka Veleva, one of the study's authors and a faculty member of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Finland's University of Oulu. The findings reflect what U.S. fertility doctors say they are increasingly seeing in their own practices. (Read "Building a Better Baby: A New In Vitro Test...
...other fertility treatments - including experimental procedures such as harvesting immature eggs and maturing them in vitro for IVF, and the transplantation of ovarian tissue or entire intact ovaries - have gained ground in the past five years, especially for women with premature infertility or infertility resulting from cancer therapy. An article published in the Feb. 26 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine urges oncologists to consider fertility preservation, including the use of experimental techniques, more routinely with their patients, since as many as 90% of women who undergo full-body radiation become infertile. But even as fertility specialists offer...