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Lauersen is being charged with insurance fraud. Prosecutors say he gave couples infertility treatments, like in vitro fertilization, generally not covered by health insurance, and submitted claim forms saying he was treating insured conditions like ovarian cysts. His case is attracting widespread attention both because it is highly unusual for such a prominent doctor to be charged with fraud and because of the impact a conviction could have on the medical profession...
DARWIN'S ANGELS? Playboy filmmaker and soft-porn entrepreneur Ron Harris' website got more than 5 million hits its first day of business. His commodity? Eggs harvested from models for in-vitro fertilization. The auction could be a fraud, but if people want models, they should get the best. We asked fertility clinics what characteristics clients look for in donors and rated models to see whose eggs would be best...
...link between sex organs and reproduction will be broken. You will then be able to take a cutting from your body and grow a new person, as if you were a willow tree. And if it becomes possible to screen or genetically engineer embryos to "improve" them, then in-vitro fertilization and cloning may become the rule rather than the exception among those who can afford...
...share this interest in infertile, social sex with a few other species: dolphins, bonobo apes and some birds. But even if sex is too good for human beings to give up, more and more people will abandon it as a means of reproduction. Many people born from in-vitro techniques are themselves infertile--they inherit the infertility from their genetic parents. So infertility is bound to increase, and with it the demand for IVF. Add to this the demand from gay men and women and from those with private eugenic motives--ranging from not wanting to pass on inherited disease...
TOMORROW: Heart, liver, kidneys grown from stem cells in vitro and transplanted into the body...