INFERTILITY: The Treatments, The Questions
Assisted reproductive technology has given hope to many infertile couples who want to have a child. Does it matter which method or procedure is chosen? A BABY BOOM THROUGH ASSISTED REPRODUCTION On July 25, 1978, a unique birth took place in Oldham, England, when a baby girl named Louise Joy Brown entered the world. Louise was history’s first test-tube baby. Nine months earlier, Louise had been conceived in a laboratory through a process called IN VITRO FERILIZATION [IVF]. By means of this procedure, an egg extracted from her mother was united with a sperm in a glass dish. Two and a half days later, after the egg cell had subdivided into eight mi...