Word: wombs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...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...
...most of my life, nicknames have taken over my identity, I have answered to nicknames more often than I have to my real name. This barrage started in my youngest years with my family. In fact, I was doomed from day one--when I emerged from my mother's womb as a "little bubula...
Canosa: The chrysanthemum opening is supposed to be an orgasm at the end of Dream Play. But to me, the very first thing is she is born into the world, to me the end was like the womb closing back up, sucking her back up. Not about any chrysanthemum opening. No. [With] Dream Play, I'd say, I violated more of the integrity of the text than any other time. Because I didn't tell that story. It came from when I wanted to be a painter in theater, now I think storyteller is something I need...