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| 247.1 | He said, in his best Maxwell Smart voice... | CSC32::J_OPPELT | Whatever happened to ADDATA? | Thu Jan 12 1995 16:45 | 1 |
| The old "Frozen Embryo in the Petri Dish" trick...
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| 247.2 | | COVERT::COVERT | John R. Covert | Fri Jan 13 1995 08:01 | 40 |
| Copyright 1995. The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.
ROME (AP) -- The Vatican has condemned a surrogate pregnancy that
resulted in the birth of a baby whose genetic mother died in a car
crash two years ago. Such a pregnancy was tantamount to "trampling the
right to be born in a human way," the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore
Romano said Wednesday.
Prominent scientists, including Nobel laureate Rita Levi-Montalcini,
defended the pregnancy.
Eight of the woman's eggs had been fertilized with her husband's sperm
a few months before she died. Four of the embryos were frozen after an
initial implantation of the other four embryos failed.
Last year, the woman's husband asked Bilotta to implant those embryos
in the womb of his 33-year-old sister, who gave birth to Elisabetta
last week.
The Vatican condemned the pregnancy, saying the creation of life
outside the womb is a distortion of God's plan.
"It's evident that problems so grave and complex, in which the true
protagonist is the human being who will be brought to life, can't be
turned over to emotion, nor the interests of couples, nor the
successes of science," the editorial said.
"The child becomes degraded to an object of desires."
But Rome gynecologist, Pasquale Bilotta, who announced the birth, said
doctors agreed to the husband's request because they believed that
"science should be at the service of life."
"This baby was born of an act of love between husband and wife,"
Bilotta told the RAI state broadcasting network.
Levi-Montalcini, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for medicine, told
reporters the baby's birth "was anything but immoral."
"It's an act of great generosity," she said.
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| 247.3 | | COVERT::COVERT | John R. Covert | Fri Jan 13 1995 08:04 | 7 |
| IMHO, once the eggs were fertilized, the doctors had an obligation to
implant all of them.
The Vatican denouncement is not of the surrogate pregnancy, but of the
entire practice of in vitro fertilization.
/john
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| 247.4 | | POWDML::LAUER | Little Chamber of Oral Exploits | Fri Jan 13 1995 08:47 | 3 |
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Why are they complaining NOW? Or did I miss their initial complaints
in 1978 when Louise Brown was born?
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| 247.5 | | NOTIME::SACKS | Gerald Sacks ZKO2-3/N30 DTN:381-2085 | Fri Jan 13 1995 10:20 | 12 |
| > Eight of the woman's eggs had been fertilized with her husband's sperm
> a few months before she died. Four of the embryos were frozen after an
> initial implantation of the other four embryos failed.
Bzzzt! The embryos better have been frozen before the implantation failed.
They're typically frozen at about the same time the other embryos are
transferred.
re .4:
As far as I know, the Vatican has opposed IVF from the beginning.
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| 247.6 | Black and white in a gray world.... | PERFOM::LICEA_KANE | when it's comin' from the left | Fri Jan 13 1995 10:30 | 5 |
| The Vatican has indeed opposed IVF from day one.
But I've yet to see a prayer vigil outside of a fertility clinic.
-mr. bill
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| 247.7 | | NOTIME::SACKS | Gerald Sacks ZKO2-3/N30 DTN:381-2085 | Fri Jan 13 1995 10:44 | 2 |
| Ironically, without the nuns supplying their urine, the IVF clinics would be
out of business.
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| 247.8 | | COVERT::COVERT | John R. Covert | Fri Jan 13 1995 10:53 | 5 |
| >Black and white in a gray world...
Right and wrong in differing degrees of severity.
/john
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| 247.9 | | WECARE::GRIFFIN | John Griffin ZKO1-3/B31 381-1159 | Fri Jan 13 1995 11:23 | 9 |
| One of the national news programs this week ran a story on a woman
whose husband, between the time he was diagnosed with cancer and the
beginning of chemotherapy, had his sperm frozen.
After he died, his wife used his frozen sperm to become pregnant,
and she gave birth to a child which the bureaucrats at Social Security
are so far refusing to acknowledge as the child/heir of the deceased.
Undoubtedly, this is the future.
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| 247.10 | | GMT1::TEEKEMA | Count down 5..4..3..2..1..Out o' here. | Fri Jan 13 1995 11:24 | 2 |
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Anyone here in the Box want to claim this one ???? %^)
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| 247.11 | | DOCTP::BINNS | | Mon Jan 16 1995 09:00 | 9 |
| re: .9
Sounds suspiciously like a riff on the recent news story about a woman
(in U.K.?) whose child was declared illegitimate because she was
impregnated with her husband's sperm after he died. Seems the wording
on laws that define legitimacy simply haven't caught up with the
technology.
Kit
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| 247.12 | Hollow condemnation at best | MOLAR::DELBALSO | I (spade) my (dogface) | Mon Jan 16 1995 10:21 | 5 |
| > The Vatican has condemned a surrogate pregnancy that
> resulted in the birth of a baby
So, what're they gonna do? Send the Exorcist to bebbesit the little tyke?
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| 247.13 | | TROOA::COLLINS | Have you got two tens for a five? | Fri Jan 20 1995 15:04 | 5 |
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Anthony Baez died in NYC three days before Christmas. His widow
Mirabel asked the medical examiner to extract some of the sperm from
his corpse, which she will use for IVF in the near future.
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