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...good thing that most doctors are principled professionals, since there is nothing to stop them from implanting 10 embryos in a woman hoping to give birth to a softball team. Embryos can be bought and sold and cloned and even implanted in a monkey's womb because this is the most private of industries, a $4 billion business that largely polices itself. Liberals worry about egg selling and womb rental, about poor women being exploited to help rich women have children--but they don't want to push too hard, because reproductive freedom is a hallowed right. Conservatives struggle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wanted: Someone to Play God | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

...ever wish you'd finished college? -Rafi Katz, Silver Spring, MD.I'm just not that type of person. As soon as I got out of the womb I was ready to do this. Then there's other times-I'm not really high-tech computer-savvy, and there's some things that I do have weaknesses with. I don't know if school would have made that better for me. I'm cool with the way I've turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Sean Combs | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

...narrow their choices of potential partners. Among the constellation of genes that control the immune system are those known as the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), which influence tissue rejection. Conceive a child with a person whose MHC is too similar to your own, and the risk increases that the womb will expel the fetus. Find a partner with sufficiently different MHC, and you're likelier to carry a baby to term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Science of Romance: Why We Love | 1/17/2008 | See Source »

...inserted into a womb and gestated normally. Result: clones with the same tender meat or premium milk. Only their offspring are killed?the clones themselves are too expensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Briefing | 1/17/2008 | See Source »

...narrow their choices of potential partners. Among the constellation of genes that control the immune system are those known as the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), which influence tissue rejection. Conceive a child with a person whose MHC is too similar to your own, and the risk increases that the womb will expel the fetus. Find a partner with sufficiently different MHC, and you're likelier to carry a baby to term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why We Love | 1/16/2008 | See Source »

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