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...sponsored baby hatcheries in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. People of any age or marital status could submit their genetic material, pay a fee, perhaps apply for a permit and then produce offspring. "Embryos could be brought to fetal and infant stage all in the laboratory, outside the womb," says Cornish. "Once ready, the children could be fed by nurses or even automated machinery...
...couples who are concerned about passing on defective genes may be spared that agonizing dilemma, thanks to a remarkable new procedure that allows doctors to test days-old embryos for genetic abnormalities outside the womb. The technique -- which begins with in vitro, or "test-tube," fertilization and then involves plucking a single cell from an embryo the size of a grain of sand -- has already produced a healthy baby girl for a British couple with a 1 in 4 chance of having a child with cystic fibrosis, according to a report in last week's New England Journal of Medicine...
...standard in vitro fertilization protocol, using hormones to stimulate the production of extra eggs, which were then mixed with sperm in a Petri dish. Two of the resulting embryos tested positive for cystic fibrosis. The rest were O.K., and two of them were implanted in the mother's womb. One became Chloe O'Brien, a healthy child who will neither get cystic fibrosis nor pass it on to her offspring...
...YORK--Harvard has long been a nurturing womb for fledgling politicos and power brokers. And judging by the number of Harvard affiliates in attendance in various capacities here in New York, the Crimson political tradition is as strong as ever...
...personal morality, they rejected abortion for economic reasons and endorsed it only for a grave threat to a mother's physical or mental health, severe physical or mental defect in a fetus, rape or incest. The new policy also acknowledges that many Presbyterians see each life in the womb as "created for a purpose and belonging...