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...notion of yuppie couples' picking the child with the highest IQ out of the 10 or 12 possibilities they might be able to generate through, say, in vitro fertilization is not worth spending a lot of time on. Intelligence is very complex. We can't even define it. It is not at all clear to me that a $ real grasp of the genes responsible for intelligence is going to come about, certainly not during the next hundred years. Athletic ability? That's even worse. Are we talking physical strength or height or quickness, and what do those traits mean...
...choose the sex of their child. That is now possible, according to a report last week in Nature. But the technique, developed by Dr. Alan Handyside at Hammersmith Hospital in London, is far from simple. It involves creating several test-tube embryos outside the mother's womb through in vitro fertilization. Handyside's team found a way to determine the sex of embryos that are only a few days old by analyzing their genetic material. An embryo of the desired sex can then be implanted in the womb and the other embryos discarded...
...arrival of new reproductive technologies--such as in vitro fertilization and embryo transplantation--requires feminists to discuss the language and values involved in how society perceives reproduction, said Isabel Marcus, a professor of law at the State University of New York at Buffalo...
Another casualty of the Administration's pro-life offensive is Government support for research on in-vitro fertilization, in which eggs are extracted from a woman's ovaries, fertilized in a glass dish, then implanted in the donor's womb. Next week a House subcommittee will release a report charging that the Department of Health and Human Services has shied away from funding research on "test-tube fertilization" because of pressure from right-to-life groups. As a consequence, the discovery of new techniques to make the procedure more reliable and lower its cost (currently $6,000 for each attempted...
...Administration's hostility to in-vitro research is more puzzling than its opposition to experiments with fetal tissue. The goal of the technique is to assist infertile couples who want children, an objective that seems to square with the President's pro-family views. Opponents argue that since human life begins at conception, the accidental but inevitable destruction of some embryos during in-vitro fertilization is murder. The irony is that in their zealous defense of the lives of "unborn children," the foes of in-vitro fertilization are preventing other children from ever being born...