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...answer to the problem was hopping around a nearby pen. Dr. Adams inserted the fertilized ova in the womb of a female rabbit and shipped her by air to South Africa. There, four days later, Dr. George Hunter in Pietermaritzburg flushed the ova out with sheep's blood serum and found them still healthy. Transferred to ewes of low degree, six of them are about to be delivered as highbred English lambs...
...doctors emphasized that their discovery is not a diagnostic technique but a tool of basic scientific research that may help them decide whether individual cases of congenital heart defects are caused by genetics or by trouble in the womb. Can a layman tell the difference between "normal" and "abnormal" palm configurations? "No," says Dr. Hale, "and he shouldn...
Such questions, of course, pale beside blurbissimo writing. This is Michelangelo painting the figures of the Sistine Chapel ceiling: "Each one had to be pushed out of his artistic womb, pushed out by his own inarticulate frenzied force. He must gather within himself his galvanic might; his burgeoning seed must be generated each day anew within his vitals, hurtled into space, projected onto the ceiling, given life everlasting. Though he was creating God the Father, he himself was God the Mother ... on his lonely truckle bed high in the heavens, going through parturition to deliver a race of immortals...
...article "The Glass Womb" [which described the fertilization of a human egg on glass slides] made me wince at the way some men can tamper with the laws of nature and morality as they please, and appear justified in doing so. I think there is a point that Dr. Petrucci has failed to realize: if Dr. Petrucci is actually growing human life, he will be committing murder each time he kills one of the specimens...
...living human ova have been studied in vitro. Our prime purpose has been to help women with their Fallopian tubes closed or removed to succeed in having children by obtaining a mature egg, fertilizing it in vitro, and then after four to six days transplanting it into the womb. LANDRUM B. SHETTLES, M.D., PH.D. Presbyterian Hospital New York City