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ROSEANNE is married...with child. Husband No. 3, her former bodyguard, Ben Thomas, got the bride pregnant through in-vitro fertilization. Their lively Nevada wedding last week was witnessed by 150 guests, who wore identifying wristbands instead of lapel stickers. To the relief of many, Roseanne did not sing Close...
...vitro fertilization is an arduous process in which a woman is pumped full of drugs that force several of her eggs to mature before they are removed from her body. But a new technique involves taking out immature eggs and bringing them to maturity outside the mother. Possible benefits: freedom from harsh drugs, lower cost and maybe even a better success rate...
...methods could make in-vitro fertilization easier...
Making a test-tube baby is a test of human endurance -- especially for the would-be mother. To start the process of in-vitro fertilization (IVF), she must submit to a two-week regimen of daily drug injections. They prepare her ovaries and cause perhaps half a dozen eggs to mature simultaneously, but the shots can also produce pain, bloating and sharp mood swings. Every day she undergoes tedious blood tests and ultrasound examinations: the doctors need to monitor the ovaries closely and remove the eggs at just the right time so they can be fertilized...
...issue of the journal Science, the group has already made some tentative decisions that will upset pro-lifers -- and perhaps many others as well. To begin with, the committee apparently favors federal funding for experiments conducted on "spare" embryos collected at fertility clinics. During the process of in vitro fertilization, many eggs are fertilized but not all are implanted in the would-be mother. The extra ones are routinely discarded, and some countries already allow experiments on such embryos. But the proposed U.S. guidelines would go further: they would allow scientists to create and discard human embryos solely for research...