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...only eleven years ago that Louise Brown became the first baby to start life outside a mother's womb. Since then, the business of in-vitro fertilization -- conception in a test tube -- has grown even faster than Louise has. Some 200 IVF clinics have sprung up in the U.S., and they have been responsible for more than 5,000 births. The surging demand stems from the high incidence of infertility: about 1 married couple in 12 has not been able to conceive a child despite a year of trying. IVF dangles one last shred of hope before some of these...
...most important thing is that this procedure is preventable," says George Annas of the Boston University School of Medicine. Multiple fetuses often result from in vitro fertilization, in which numerous embryos are transferred into the uterus in the hope that one will "take." As a result, some clinics now use fewer embryos. Multiple conceptions have also occurred in women taking fertility drugs; many could be avoided, say obstetricians, if dosages were prescribed more carefully. Such measures would probably lengthen the time that it takes couples to conceive, but that seems a small price to pay for avoiding what must...
...Vatican, too, raised a storm last March when it issued a document calling for legal restraints on medical manipulation of human birth, including in vitro fertilization, surrogate motherhood and termination of flawed fetuses. Moral traditionalists of all faiths cheered. Biomedical science, they claimed, must not intrude on natural life processes. But many liberals sided with Michigan Lawyer Noel Keane, a pioneer in arranging surrogate agreements, who reportedly declared, "I think the church is a little out of touch with reality." The document has prompted serious debate, but so far it has moved the country no closer to a consensus...
...this point some Catholic theologians question the Instruction. Notable among them is Jesuit Father Richard McCormick of the University of Notre Dame, who thinks the in vitro passage is the "weakest part" of the entire statement. In his view "the child should be the product of a loving act. That doesn't necessarily translate as a result of an act of sexual intercourse." McCormick agrees that the "unitive" and "procreative" spheres need not be combined in every act of a married couple...
...doctor and fertility expert, says childless Catholics are "incensed" at the church's tough line. Two days after the Vatican's prohibition was issued, Susan Fitter, 33, of Lawton, Okla., who has been trying to have a child for four years, went ahead with her decision to use in vitro fertilization with her husband's sperm for later implantation in a surrogate carrier. She has decided that she would leave the church rather than submit to the teaching. Says she: "I simply will not remain a Roman Catholic. Children are the No. 1 priority of my husband...