LONDON, May 9, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As in vitro fertilization suffers from an increasingly bad press due to a number incidences of mixed-up sperm and eggs, many women are opting to share their eggs within a smaller circle of patients, says a British doctor. The result is that far fewer embryos are destroyed than at IVF clinics. Dr. Kamal Ahuja, of London’s Cromwell Hospital, says the use of donor eggs has rocketed from 400 a year in the mid-1990s to 2,000, and expects it to reach 3,000 this year and 5,000 in 2005. “In five or ten years this could become the preferred route of IVF,” she said. Of interest to the pro-life movement, Ahuja said, the practice reduces the “gross wastage” of eggs that is notorious in IVF laboratories. For newswire coverage: https://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=2698898
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EGG-SHARING BECOMING POPULAR ALTERNATIVE TO IVF
LONDON, May 9, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As in vitro fertilization suffers from an increasingly bad press due to a number incidences of mixed-up sperm and eggs, many women are opting to share their eggs within a smaller circle of patients, says a British doctor. The result is that far fewer embryos are destroyed than at IVF clinics. Dr. Kamal Ahuja, of London’s Cromwell Hospital, says the use of donor eggs has rocketed from 400 a year in the mid-1990s to 2,000, and expects it to reach 3,000 this year and 5,000 in 2005. “In five or ten years this could […]
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