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Mary Warnock on the Right to Have a Baby

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The Importance of Research in Infertility Treatment

Most people who object to the whole thing root and broad what they object to is the inevitable consequence that embryos are created that are destroyed. And of course it's complicated by the fact that some religious people believe that infertility treatment is just wrong. So let's just focus on this idea of embryos which don't live to term as it were. Under what sort of conditions do embryos get terminated? Well that too I think first of all we increasingly know that it's very very undesirable to have multiple births. In order to produce embryos at all she has to produce more eggs that are going to be used. Spacing all these eggs fertilized then they're going to be surplus embryos. But in order

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