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Their new hope can be traced to the birth of Louise Brown in England in 1978. Louise was the world's first test-tube baby, conceived by means of in vitro fertilization, in which, after her mother's egg and father's sperm were united in a laboratory, the resulting embryo was implanted in her mother's womb. Louise's subsequent, internationally celebrated birth launched a new branch of medicine that has come to be known as "assisted reproductive technology...
Their specialist did hold out one faint hope. In the future, he said, for men with few or sluggish sperm that could not penetrate egg cells on their own, scientists might be able to help fertilization take place by injecting a single sperm cell into an egg. At the time, that sounded futuristic even to a medical man like Jim. But he and Sarah took their doctor's advice, stopped trying to conceive through in vitro and kept Jim's last remaining samples frozen at the sperm bank...
...while working for the Red Cross during World War I. "Everything I know about myself had to leave," says the exuberant Bullock of playing the reserved Agnes von Kurowsky. "That's why I did it." Plus she learned all that nurses knew in 1918. "Everything from making an egg cream to amputating a limb," she says...
Parental intervention can still save some of these barely visible blobs of protoplasm, and last week a few did get last-minute reprieves. But despite the best efforts of clinic officials, the majority of these "parents"--couples who had donated egg and sperm in an attempt at in-vitro fertilization (IVF)--cannot or will not be located. Without word from the parents within five years, British law requires that the embryos be destroyed. And so, after last-ditch appeals to the courts and Prime Minister John Major failed, the clinics began dumping the eggs and embryos like so much abandoned...
...sort are routinely destroyed in small batches every week, as they have been since the 1980s. The term embryo, moreover, carries an emotional charge that may be misleading. These entities consist of a handful of cells, the very earliest stages of the nine-month process that turns a fertilized egg into a full-term baby. They were frozen only a few days at most after conception; they would not even merit the designation fetus until after three months in the womb. "You can't regard these as little people," says Robert Forman, clinical director of the London Gynecology and Fertility...