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Florida voters can decide to support IVF…or not

January 30, 2012Carole No Comments »

Newt Gingrich, on the eve of the primary election in Florida, promised to ban stem cell research and raised questions about the practice of in vitro fertilization which can result in the production of excess embryos. He promised evangelical supporters that he would form a commission to study the ethics of in vitro fertilization. He [...]

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Unintended consequences of anonymous sperm donation

November 21, 2011Carole 3 Comments »

Every week, we field questions about using sperm donors from patients who can’t have a child unless they can use donor sperm and most buy sperm from a commercial sperm bank. They may be a married couple in which the man does not produce sperm or had a vasectomy that he doesn’t want to reverse [...]

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