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BY LifeSiteNews.com LONDON, October 23, 2002 (LSN.ca) - British health authorities have been asked to investigate problems among children conceived through artificial fertility methods, including a greater likelihood of birth defects.  Two studies published in The New England Journal of Medicine this year suggest that test-tube babies are more likely to be underweight and born with a major birth defect.  An estimated 1 million babies worldwide have been conceived through IVF since Louise Brown, the first test-tube baby, was born in 1978 after being transported, as an embyro, inside a rabbit before insertion into her mother’s womb.  For two sample abstracts from the New England Journal of Medicine see:  “Low and Very Low Birth Weight in Infants Conceived with Use of Assisted Reproductive Technology”:  http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/abstract/346/10/731?maxtoshow=&HITS=20&hits=20&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=underweight+fertility&searchid=1035390170054_16500&stored_search=&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=PUBDATE_SORTDATE+desc+Score+desc&fdate=1/1/2001&tdate=10/31/2002&journalcode=nejm and   “The Risk of Major Birth Defects after Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection and in Vitro Fertilization”:  http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/abstract/346/10/725?maxtoshow=&HITS=20&hits=20&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=underweight+fertility&searchid=1035390170054_16500&stored_search=&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=PUBDATE_SORTDATE+desc+Score+desc&fdate=1/1/2001&tdate=10/31/2002&journalcode=nejm http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/british-experts-investigate-health-of-ivf-babies/

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