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	<title>Ruth Institute Blog &#187; artificial reproduction</title>
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		<title>Book Review: Precious Babies &#8211; a donor conceived person&#8217;s view</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/01/20/book-review-precious-babies-a-donor-conceived-persons-view/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:06:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Artificial Reproductive Technology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rachel Pepa [Please note the other resources at the bottom of the article when you click "Keep reading."] A review of Precious Babies: Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting after Infertility By Kate Brian As an informal guide to having children after fertility problems, Precious Babies has much to recommend it. There is, however, an omission [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feminists Warn Against Exploiting Women for Eggs in Biotech</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/12/06/feminists-warn-against-exploiting-women-for-eggs-in-biotech/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/12/06/feminists-warn-against-exploiting-women-for-eggs-in-biotech/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Artificial Reproductive Technology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Wesley J. Smith Click here to watch the related music video. Pro choice and pro life women have come together in coalition to protect women from being exploited for their eggs by Big Biotech. Reason?  Women would take all the risks and the companies could make all the money but for the small payments [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why ‘splitting’ motherhood is against the rights of the child</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/11/08/why-%e2%80%98splitting%e2%80%99-motherhood-is-against-the-rights-of-the-child/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:22:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Artificial Reproductive Technology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wonderful! The world is coming to its senses! FROM THE IONA INSTITUTE BLOG: In the last year to 18 months the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR, pictured) had handed down several excellent decisions. The most famous is the Lautsi judgement in which it ruled that Italy could place crucifixes on the walls of state [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Reasons to Choose NaProTechnology Over InVitro Fertilization</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/10/24/10-reasons-to-choose-naprotechnology-over-invitro-fertilization/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/10/24/10-reasons-to-choose-naprotechnology-over-invitro-fertilization/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:38:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By David Picella For couples that are experiencing infertility, the desire to have a child can be overwhelming. Every month that passes is another missed opportunity. Depression, grief, sadness, and despair eventually set in and at some point most couples become desperate enough to gamble with tens of thousands of dollars on expensive procedures like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are babies prizes or gifts?</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/10/24/are-babies-prizes-or-gifts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/10/24/are-babies-prizes-or-gifts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 23:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Artificial Reproductive Technology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Margaret Somerville A Canadian radio station created world-wide controversy recently when it ran a &#8220;win a baby&#8221; competition. An Ottawa music station, Hot 89.9, recently launched a “Win a Baby” contest. The prize offered was up to three rounds of fertility treatment worth C$35,000. It’s reported that the station received around 400 applications “from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Church’s Best kept secret: Church Teaching on Infertility Treatment</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/10/24/the-church%e2%80%99s-best-kept-secret-church-teaching-on-infertility-treatment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/10/24/the-church%e2%80%99s-best-kept-secret-church-teaching-on-infertility-treatment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 20:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse will interview Katie Elrod. Elrod has been a humanities teacher and administrator in independent schools for over 15 years, and has taught in the Perspectives program at Boston College. She received her BA and MA in philosophy from Boston College, where she was a Lonergan Fellow. Elrod has spoken on natural [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The science of eggsploitation</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/10/17/the-science-of-eggsploitation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/10/17/the-science-of-eggsploitation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Richard Egan Human cloning researchers pay women to risk death so they can pursue their doomed experiments. In an article published in Nature on 6 October 2011, Scott Noggle and his colleagues at the New York Stem Cell Foundation Laboratory report on their experiments in which they have derived stem cells from human embryos [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anonymous No More: Child of Sperm Donor Speaks Out</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/10/15/anonymous-no-more-child-of-sperm-donor-speaks-out/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/10/15/anonymous-no-more-child-of-sperm-donor-speaks-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 21:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Such children struggle with a unique anxiety: What if I fall in love with my half-sibling? by CHRISTOPHER WHITE Thirty-two invitro fertilized children gather at the Swedish Medical Center in 2003 in Denver. The Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine at the Center gathered the children from each of its 16 years of work in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Verbal mauling in a Canadian Shark Tank (Lion’s Den)</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/09/26/verbal-mauling-in-a-canadian-shark-tank-lion%e2%80%99s-den/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/09/26/verbal-mauling-in-a-canadian-shark-tank-lion%e2%80%99s-den/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 22:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Karen Clark Not much unlike Alana’s expereince in the Shark Tank, Jennifer Lahl’s experience was not much different.  These people should be ashamed by their uncivil behavior.  Thankfully, Diane Allen, of the Infertility Network, was a voice of reason and respect. CTV News (Canadian Press) Friday September 23, 2011 “Conference debates treatment of Canadian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Religion, Politics, and the Culture&#8221; podcasts</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/03/03/religion-politics-and-the-culture-podcasts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/03/03/religion-politics-and-the-culture-podcasts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norrie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(March 1, 2011) Maggie Gallagher appears on Dennis O&#8217;Donovan&#8217;s &#8220;Religion, Politics, and the Culture&#8221; to discuss President Obama&#8217;s refusal to uphold DoMA and the ramifications of this approach to legal and policy matters.  Listen here. (March 2, 2011) Dr J appears on Dennis O&#8217;Donovan&#8217;s &#8220;Religion, Politics, and the Culture&#8221; to discuss the links between redefining [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daddy Was Only a Donor</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/06/19/daddy-was-only-a-donor-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/06/19/daddy-was-only-a-donor-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 19:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By W. BRADFORD WILCOX In &#8220;The Switch,&#8221; coming later this summer, Jennifer Aniston plays an attractive 40-year-old professional who has given up on finding Mr. Right for marriage and decides instead to move straight on to motherhood with a donor father. The movie offers a largely celebratory treatment of donor insemination, as do two other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I’m the Only Daddy You Got! I’m the Paterfamilias!</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/02/19/i%e2%80%99m-the-only-daddy-you-got-i%e2%80%99m-the-paterfamilias/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/02/19/i%e2%80%99m-the-only-daddy-you-got-i%e2%80%99m-the-paterfamilias/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great article by a Ruth Institute Academic Advisory Board Member. By Jennifer Lahl, CBC National Director Newsweek recently reported a story about a 51-year-old man, who between 1980 and 1994 donated his sperm twice a week in order to make cash for medical school and to nurture his altruistic desires to help infertile women. Kirk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Artificial Reproduction Quiz</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/02/08/artificial-reproduction-quiz/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/02/08/artificial-reproduction-quiz/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=1412</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What percentage of Artificial Reproductive Technology patients are married couples, and what percentage are unmarried women? A. The vast majority of ART patients, about 75%, are married couples. B. It is split about evenly between married and unmarried women. C. It is evenly split three ways: about a third married women, about a third partnered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US IVF clinic scandals come to light</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2009/10/14/us-ivf-clinic-scandals-come-to-light/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2009/10/14/us-ivf-clinic-scandals-come-to-light/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Cook  BioEdge While the mistakes of British fertility clinics are going to be placed on a public register, in the US lawsuits are needed to bring them to light. Two scandals have been in the news in the last couple of weeks. In New Orleans, Ochsner Hospital has shut the doors of its IVF [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK watchdog to disclose IVF errors</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2009/10/08/uk-watchdog-to-disclose-ivf-errors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2009/10/08/uk-watchdog-to-disclose-ivf-errors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Michael Cook From now on serious mistakes in UK IVF clinics can be scrutinised by the public. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority says that it will post inspection reports on its website in an effort to make fertility treatment more transparent. The reports will include the name of the clinic involved, brief details [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ethics of paying for test-tube babies</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2009/09/30/ethics-of-paying-for-test-tube-babies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2009/09/30/ethics-of-paying-for-test-tube-babies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Margaret Somerville If society pays the costs for creating test-tube babies, we also have to accept the ethical responsibility. The Ontario Expert Panel on Infertility and Adoption recently released its report, titled &#8220;Raising Expectations,&#8221; which describes the current state of Ontario&#8217;s adoption and assisted reproduction systems and makes detailed recommendations. There is much to [...]]]></description>
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