Supporters Celebrate 25 Years of In Vitro Fertilization

CAMBRIDGE, July 17, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – One thousand men and women who were artificially conceived have been invited to Bourn Hall Clinic at Cambridge University to celebrate 25 years of in vitro fertilization on July 26. Since the 1978 birth of Louise Brown, the world’s first test tube baby, and Alastair MacDonald, the second, more than a million babies have been conceived through IVF.  Those early experiments spawned a panoply of bizarre and unethical practices, such as harvesting eggs from aborted babies, research toward human womb transplants, and efforts to create hybrid male/female embryos. All of the latter were discussed at a recent European fertility conference and, according to reports, “sparked criticism that science had gone mad.”  However, IVF has a strong support base. Macdonald’s mother tells her son: “Sometimes I can’t believe I was so, so lucky in the very early days. Alastair was more than a miracle. … There was no way God didn’t want me to have you.”  For newswire coverage:  https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=571&ncid=751&e=1&u=/nm/20030717/hl_nm/health_ivf_dc