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...clinic. Some have mortgaged their homes, sold their cars or borrowed from relatives to scrape together the $3,510 fee for foreign visitors to be treated at Bourn Hall (British citizens pay $2,340). All are brimming over with hope that their prayers will be answered by in-vitro fertilization (IVF), the mating of egg and sperm in a laboratory dish. "They depend on Mr. Steptoe utterly," observes the husband of one patient. "Knowing him is like dying and being a friend of St. Peter...
...growing social acceptance of single motherhood have drastically reduced the availability of children for adoption. At Catholic Charities, for instance, couples must now wait seven years for a child. As a result, more and more couples are turning to IVF. Predicts Clifford Stratton, director of an in-vitro lab in Reno: "In five years, there will be a successful IVF clinic in every U.S. city...
...Queen Victoria Medical Center in Melbourne, chilled to a crisp-320° F, are 200 glass tubes, each holding a microscopic embryo. Just two to eight cells in size, they are babies in waiting, life on ice, kept for possible use by participants in the hospital's in-vitro fertilization (IVF) program. Last week hospital officials were stunned to learn that two of their charges could be heirs to a million-dollar fortune. The news set armchair ethicists around the world abuzz and forced Australian policymakers to ponder an area of the law that is indeed embryonic...
BORN. To Judith Carr, 28, and Roger Carr, 30; the first in vitro baby born in the U.S., a daughter; in Norfolk. Name: Elizabeth Jordan Carr. Weight...
What a foolish statement Biologist Ruth Hubbard made, saying that in vitro fertilization reinforces society's notions that women's lives are worthless unless they bear children [Jan. 21]. No one is forcing fertilization on anyone, but now unfertile women have another option. It's quite miraculous...