IIRC the Brits were first with invitro fertilization. Remember the first
Test-Tube baby.
Louise Brown turned 21 on July 25, 2000... But I couldn't find a picture of
her on the net. In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF) has helped over 33, 000 couples
last year have babies.
To relate this to SF, Anne McCaffrey wrote a story of a couple wanting a
child and the husband's sister becomes the surrogate mother for the couple.
The technique used was IVF. You can find "The Greatest Love" in Roger
Elwood's Futurelove published in 1977 or in McCaffrey's collection entitled
The Girl Who Heard Dragons published in 1994.
James
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My epitaph will read:
"He ate what was set before him." Starman Jones, Robert A. Heinlein
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What do you think this is? Reality? It's all in the math.
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<A HREF="http://members.aol.com/jhinsey47/html/chushingura.html">The Japanese
legend of the 47 Samurai.</A>
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