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...healthy survivors, they find them. Still the question remains -- Why? Does the amount of virus a woman is exposed to make a difference? How effective might her vaginal and cervical tissue be as a barrier against infection? Does it matter if a child is infected while still in the womb or during passage through the birth canal...
...stored in a Tennessee clinic, the Davises wound up in the Supreme Court. Junior Davis had requested that the embryos be destroyed, asserting his own "reproductive rights." His ex-wife claimed a right to her "offspring." In refusing Mary Sue Davis' appeal to implant the embryos in her womb, the court decided that Junior Davis' right not to become a parent outweighed his ex-wife's claim. The Justices upheld a lower court's ruling that in such cases "procreational autonomy" gives men as well as women an overriding right not to become parents. What effect this will have...
...patients with either sickle-cell anemia or thalassemia, a related blood disorder, showed dramatic improvement after receiving butyrate injections for two to three weeks. Apparently the chemical reactivates a gene that produces a form of hemoglobin used by the baby in the womb but shuts down soon after birth. Turned on again, the gene directs the manufacture of enough fetal hemoglobin to compensate for the defective adult variety...
...what we speak; our language--its metaphors, implicit value judgments--inform our personalities. Caught between the Scylla of cliche and the Charybdis of suffix, our future personalities cannot but disintegrate into a stewing pot of confusion, from which we yearn to return to the wordlessness of the womb...
...unfrozen eggs, DNA analysis revealed that all the embryos were healthy. Sarah and Abe decided to implant just one, destined to be a male. But because Sarah was something of a traditionalist, she opted to carry the baby herself rather than enlist the services of either an artificial womb or one of the center's 18-year-old surrogate mothers. A round of hormone therapy rejuvenated Sarah's uterus, and nine months later Isaac was born...