Ivf Quotes

• How dare you refer to my beautiful children as 'synthetic'. And shame on you for wagging your judgemental little fingers at IVF - a miracle that has allowed legions of loving people, both straight and gay, to fulfill their dream of having children, your archaic thinking is out of step with the times, just like your fashions. I shall never wear Dolce and Gabbana ever again.

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  Elton John

  Beautiful   Dream   Fashion  

  @eltonjohn, www.instagram.com. March 15, 2015.

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• The term pre-embryo is useful in the political arena - where decisions are made about whether to allow early embryo (now called pre-embryo) experimentation - as well as in the confines of a doctor's office, where it can be used to allay moral concerns that might be expressed by IVF patients. 'Don't worry,' a doctor might say, 'it's only pre-embryos that we're manipulating or freezing. They won't turn into real human embryos until after we've put them back into your body.'

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  Lee M. Silver

  Real   Ivf   Doctors  

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• The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by DNA from an adult cell. What law or principle - secular, humanist, or religious - says that one combination of genetic material in a flask is OK, but another is not?

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  Nathan Myhrvold

  Religious   Ivf   Dna  

  "Human Clones: Why Not?" by Nathan Myhrvold, www.slate.com. March 14, 1997.

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• The difficulty of IVF or of any fertility issues is the hope and the shattered hope, the dream that it might happen this time and then it doesn't happen.

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  Brooke Shields

  Dream   Ivf   Issues  

  "Paula Zahn Now", edition.cnn.com. July 1, 2005.

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• Through my attempt to get pregnant through IVF, we sadly found out that I have early stages of breast cancer. It's been a shock.

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  Giuliana Rancic

  Cancer   Ivf   Found  

  Giuliana Rancic (2015). “Going Off Script: How I Survived a Crazy Childhood, Cancer, and Clooney's 32 On-Screen Rejections”, p.182, Crown Archetype

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