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Gifts of Life.
By the 1980s parents who wanted children but were unable to conceive had a bewildering variety of new procreative possibilities available to them. There was in-vitro fertilization (IVF), the results of which are popularly known as "test-tube babies." Scientists retrieved an egg (ovum) from the mother and mixed it with the father's sperm in a glass container called a petri dish so that the ovum could be fertilized. Once the zygote was created, a doctor was able to place it in the woman's uterus to develop, as in a normal pregnancy. In July 1978 the world's first "test-tube baby," Louise Brown, was born in Great Britain. With in-vitro fertilization, excess embryos could even be frozen for later pregnancies. In the GIFT procedure (gamete intrafallopian transfer) zygotes were created when prepared sperm and...
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