First in U.S.
For the first time an American woman has become pregnant after the insertion into her womb of an embryo that had been fertilised in* a glass dish by- sperm from her husband, it has been announced in Norfolk, Virginia. Several pregnancies, using a similar method and leading to normal birth, have been achieved in Britain and Australia as well as in one unconfirmed case in. India, j After a year of efforts) at a clinic associated with’, the Eastern Virginia Medical School, Dr Howard Jdnes, director of the clinic, told of his first success. He declined to identify the prospective parents or say . how far the pregnancy had progressed.— New York. • ,
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Press, 13 May 1981, Page 8
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