Even more radical was the invention, in 1978, of in-vitro fertilization, or IVF, the now-common technique in which egg and sperm meet in a laboratory petri dish and create an embryo that is then implanted in the would-be mother's womb.
The Vatican has stepped up its campaigns against legislation on abortion and in vitro fertilization.
She suggested in vitro fertilization or adoption, but she says he rejected both ideas.
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But my immediate impression that someone who sings like this would have to go in vitro fertilization...
In a few areas, such as in vitro fertilization and mental health, insurance plans often restrict coverage.
We also crowdfunded our first baby: A couple raised money to be able to afford in vitro fertilization.
Embryonic stem cells taken from in vitro fertilization clinics might have allowed researchers to develop new toxicology screens.
Instead, it was her doctors who came under fire for their new fertility treatment in vitro fertilization (or IVF).
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After trying unsuccessfully for five years to get pregnant, Ms. Barth saw in vitro fertilization as her last chance.
The couple also says they long wanted to be parents and had seven unsuccessful attempts at in vitro fertilization.
She said her husband, Khalifa Alhayal, gave her hope to realize her dream and they became parents through in vitro fertilization.
Also contentious are refund programs that offer money back if in vitro fertilization fails and patients don't take a baby home.
In Massachusetts, for example, every insurance policy must cover in vitro fertilization, even if you're a 25-year-old male, or a nun.
Children conceived by in vitro fertilization and other technologies have higher rates of prematurity and low birth weights, conditions associated with behavioral and developmental problems.
Her husband is also serving multiple life sentences and she too says she received In Vitro fertilization using sperm smuggled from inside an Israeli prison.
But creating a stem cell requires destroying embryos when they are five-day-old balls of a hundred cells, such as fertilized eggs discarded after an in vitro fertilization.
Carrie Jones said Monday she had been using injections to help her conceive, but the couple did not undergo in vitro fertilization, which sometimes results in multiple births.
Couples hoping to avoid in vitro fertilization in favor of natural conception at future space hotels are going to be sadly disappointed, says a former NASA flight surgeon.
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On his campaign Web site, Obama said he supports the creation of new stem cells from embryos created for in vitro fertilization treatments that would otherwise be discarded.
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In practice, the embryos used in the collection of stem cells were left over from attempts to assist reproduction -- donated by couples who used in vitro fertilization.
Because not all insurance companies pay for in vitro fertilization.
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The basic techniques of human embryo creation that Dr. Edwards pioneered form the technical foundation of in vitro fertilization, human cloning techniques, genetic screening of human embryos and embryonic-stem-cell research.
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Husheer wants to catch women who have given up trying to conceive naturally, before they head for costlier fertility drug treatments and ultimately in vitro fertilization with all their attendant side effects.
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Because it is the age of the eggs not the uterus that most affects the success of conception, egg freezing allows women to preserve younger eggs and then use them later through in vitro fertilization.
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Somewhere near where you live, a couple will discover this week that they are infertile and that if they want biological children of their own, they are going to need in vitro fertilization (or IVF).
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Because egg freezing requires the use of in vitro fertilization for future pregnancies, its widespread adoption would also likely increase the use of preimplantation sex selection and genetic diagnosis, practices which pose a range of ethical dilemmas.
But Thomson notes that it would be hard to get good genetic diversity because the people who choose to get in vitro fertilization treatments, and create extra embryos, do not mirror the population at large ethnically or genetically.
L.B. didn't mention to the clerk that she and Sara are trying to have a baby by in vitro fertilization, and that they worry the nonbiological mother could lose custody down the road since Mississippi bans gay adoption.
This time they did multiple clones of multiple people, and they did it at a ratio that is roughly equivalent to what it would take you to do in vitro fertilization, something a lot of people are familiar with.
Embryonic stems research is inherently controversial because in order to use the stem cells for science, the embryo, which is a collection of cells that could develop into a fully formed human, is destroyed, even though embryos in these procedures are left over from in vitro fertilization.
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