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Doctors also see possibilities in artificial inovulation, a procedure in which an egg cell is taken directly from the ovaries, fertilized in a test tube and then reimplanted in the uterus. By carefully scrutinizing the developing embryo in the test tube, doctors could spot serious genetic deficiencies and decide not to reimplant it, thus avoiding an abortion later on. If the embryo is normal, it could even be reimplanted in the womb of a donor mother and carried to term there, enabling the woman either unable or unwilling to go through pregnancy to have children that were genetically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: THE BODY: From Baby Hatcheries To Xeroxing Human Beings | 4/19/1971 | See Source »

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