Babies on Order



Signs of the Times
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In September, fertility experts interviewed by London's Daily
Telegraph said an alarming number of women were choosing in-vitro
fertilization not because of trouble conceiving but merely because
"fast track" pregnancies better fit their busy lifestyles. (Said one
clinician, "Some people are horrified by the idea that they have to
have sex two to three times a week (to maximize the likelihood of
conception).") And in October, an official at the Erasmus fertility
clinic in Brussels, Belgium, said that because more lesbian couples
were seeking insemination at a time of dwindling sperm supplies, the
clinic might have to restrict its services to male-female couples.
[Daily Telegraph (London), 9-25-05] [Expatica.com (Amsterdam),
10-24-05]

The provincial government in Buenos Aires began in December requiring
all retail clothiers selling to adolescent girls to stock a range of
"plus" sizes in order to encourage larger girls to obsess less about
being thin. And in November, researchers from the Adelaide and Meath
Hospital in Ireland told a convention in Chicago that two-thirds of
their patients who received injections into the buttock muscle had not
received the full dose of medicine because existing needles are not
long enough to reach beyond the fat. [Wall Street Journal, 11-26-05]
[Reuters, 11-28-05]

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