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	<title>Ruth Institute Blog &#187; invitro fertilization</title>
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		<title>IVF: Is This Really Good for the Children?</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/01/04/2-ivf-is-this-really-good-for-the-children/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Artificial Reproductive Technology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Rebecca Taylor I have heard countless times that parents that undergo in vitrofertilization (IVF) must love their children so very much to go through such an expensive and invasive process to have children.  I have no doubt that parents undergoing IVF believe they are doing what is best, but looking at the realities of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IVF Industry&#8217;s Cavalier Attitude toward Children</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/11/22/ivf-industrys-cavalier-attitude-toward-children/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/11/22/ivf-industrys-cavalier-attitude-toward-children/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:35:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Invitro Fertilization]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alana Stewart, Elizabeth Marquardt, Jennifer Lahl, call your offices! Check out this NPR interview with a representative of the IVF industry and Wendy Kramer, founder of one of the sibling donor registries. Listen to Sean Tipton, director of public affairs for the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, an organization of reproductive medicine practitioners. We think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IVF Industry&#8217;s Cavalier attitude toward women&#8217;s health</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/11/22/ivf-industrys-cavalier-attitude-toward-womens-health/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/11/22/ivf-industrys-cavalier-attitude-toward-womens-health/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Artificial Reproductive Technology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a  recent study of ovarian cancer &#8221;After 15 years of follow-up, they found that women who had undergone IVF were more than four times as likely those who had not to develop borderline ovarian cancer, a malignancy that is treatable and survivable.&#8221; Now, I would normally think that a four times greater risk of [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Artificial Reproductive Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Babies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Invitro Fertilization]]></category>
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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>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>
				<category><![CDATA[Artificial Reproductive Technology]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=9024</guid>
		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[Artificial Reproductive Technology]]></category>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Artificial Reproductive Technology]]></category>
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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>Black Market Babies and the Church</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/09/26/black-market-babies-and-the-church/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/09/26/black-market-babies-and-the-church/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 22:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Artificial Reproductive Technology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mary Jo Anderson The current battles over the fate of thousands of babies conceived via in vitro fertilization would confound even King Solomon. Sensational news reports surrounding the $180,000 price tag for Ukrainian black-market babies shocked the determinedly secular segments of society, and few remain unmoved by the story of the FBI’s round-up of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Twin Reductions” and the Right Side of History</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/08/26/%e2%80%9ctwin-reductions%e2%80%9d-and-the-right-side-of-history/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/08/26/%e2%80%9ctwin-reductions%e2%80%9d-and-the-right-side-of-history/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 01:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My first response to this story Betsy posted earlier this week about “Twin Reductions” at IVF clinics was to be appalled. But as I have reflected on it, there is more to the story than the outrageousness of it all. To be sure, twin reduction is intrinsically appalling. Fertility doctors routinely implant multiple embryos in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet the co-parents: friends not lovers</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/08/22/meet-the-co-parents-friends-not-lovers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/08/22/meet-the-co-parents-friends-not-lovers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Artificial Reproductive Technology]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=8370</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What’s it like to have a child with someone who’s a friend but not a lover? More and more people are doing just that, to satisfy their broodiness. Helen Croydon investigates. Seven years ago, when Sabrina Morgan, 33, was single and desperate for a child, she found herself chatting to Kam Wong, 41, a gay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Costa Rica must legalize IVF or face penalties: human rights commission</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/04/28/costa-rica-must-legalize-ivf-or-face-penalties-human-rights-commission/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/04/28/costa-rica-must-legalize-ivf-or-face-penalties-human-rights-commission/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Artificial Reproductive Technology]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=7184</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[by Terrence McKeegan Co-authored with Tyler Ament WASHINGTON, April 27, 2011 (C-FAM) &#8211; Costa Rica must legalize in vitro fertilization or face penalties for alleged violations of human rights protected by international law, according to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. In 2000, the Costa Rican Constitutional Court ruled that IVF in the country was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One More Reason To Be Wary Of ART</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/03/31/one-more-reason-to-be-wary-of-art/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/03/31/one-more-reason-to-be-wary-of-art/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 03:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leland</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=6908</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday there was a segment on NPR titled Taming The Twin Trend From Fertility Treatments. They talked about how various forms of ART have caused an increase in the incidence of twin pregnancies: Twins, once a rarity to marvel over, are now a common part of American culture, thanks in large part to increased use [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EGG DONORS PROJECT</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/03/15/egg-donors-project/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/03/15/egg-donors-project/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Artificial Reproductive Technology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Women undergoing egg retrieval undertake real yet poorly studied health risks. To retrieve her eggs, a woman first takes one set of powerful synthetic hormones to shut down her ovaries, then another to hyperstimulate them to induce a yield of eggs many times the normal number.  Whether this is done as part of her own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Three-parent&#8217; mitochondrial IVF technique to be assessed</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/03/15/three-parent-mitochondrial-ivf-technique-to-be-assessed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/03/15/three-parent-mitochondrial-ivf-technique-to-be-assessed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=6599</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From The Telegraph The Government has asked the fertility watchdog to assess a controversial new &#8220;three-parent&#8221; treatment for IVF. Scientists have been invited to advise whether the new &#8220;three-parent IVF&#8221; procedure should be approved to help couples affected by devastating conditions. An expert panel from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) will consider its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Donor-Conceived Persons Demand Their Biological Origins</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/02/27/donor-conceived-persons-demand-their-biological-origins/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/02/27/donor-conceived-persons-demand-their-biological-origins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 07:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leland</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=6192</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yet more evidence that Anonymous Sperm and Egg Donation is Over (and not soon enough, if you ask me). newsweek.com: Currently, in the United States, you need a license to sell a condo or cut hair in a salon, but not to broker human life. The $3 billion fertility industry goes largely unregulated, offering blank [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IVF more deadly than abortion for women, says BMJ</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/02/07/ivf-more-deadly-than-abortion-for-women-says-bmj/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/02/07/ivf-more-deadly-than-abortion-for-women-says-bmj/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 21:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jared Yee While only two women died as a result of having an abortion in Britain in 2007, seven died as a direct result of IVF between 2003 and 2005, obstetricians have noted in a recent BMJ editorial. This happened even though there are only a quarter the number of IVF cycles as abortions, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of Film to Tell Stories</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/11/16/the-power-of-film-to-tell-stories/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/11/16/the-power-of-film-to-tell-stories/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 20:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CBC’s Jennifer Lahl and Wesley J. Smith are occasional writers for ToTheSource.org. Recently ToTheSource interviewed Jennifer. To The Source: How did you become interested in egg donation? What brought this to your attention? Jennifer Lahl: I became interested in it as a broader issue within the various reproductive technologies. I’ve been writing and speaking on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nobel award: misconceived</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/10/22/nobel-award-misconceived/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 20:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Artificial Reproductive Technology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Edwards&#8217; IVF technique devalued the human embryo and contributed to infertility. by Carolyn Moynihan There is something quite ironic in this week’s award of the Nobel Prize to Robert Edwards for the development of human in vitro fertilisation. During decades in which the whole thrust of reproductive medicine was to render fertile women infertile [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Noble Nobel?</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/10/09/a-noble-nobel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Oct 2010 18:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2010 has been awarded to Robert G. Edwards for the development of in vitro fertilization (IVF). Edwards is part of the famous Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards duo, who were partners in the lab for years, trying to fertilize a human egg and thus create an embryo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Artificially Conceiving a Bad Romantic Comedy</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/09/04/artificially-conceiving-a-bad-romantic-comedy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 22:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Artificial Reproductive Technology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gotta love that headline. by Mary Rose Somarriba Jennifer Aniston’s big new movie made headlines this week—for flopping. The Switch, a romantic comedy about a forty-year-old single woman who wants a baby and chooses to be artificially inseminated, brought in embarrassingly low ticket sales of only $8.4 million on opening weekend. Hollywood reporters have tried [...]]]></description>
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