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To: Ilaine who wrote (83482)	7/6/2000 5:39:27 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

thanks... hmm, interesting. Well on a slightly different note, I recently went to a lecture with a friend at a large university around here re: in vitro fertilization. This university is renowned in the subject apparently. I went because I had to do some things in the area and this is a carpool so I decided to sit in for the talk. The most amazing thing to me (a neophyte in the subject) was the science of fertilization... the terminology used, etc. They use a lot of farming terms - harvesting, etc. Then there is this issue of "quality"... sperm quality, egg quality etc. They choose each of the highest quality, based on some criterion they showed in the lecture, and then the chances for pregnancy are higher. Overall, it is an extemely technical process, with many misses which are inevitable. The point is that there are some that will say that the pictures of cells and sperm and eggs (some pictures were placed next to the head of a pin for size reference) that I saw in this lecture constituted "life". I thought about that when I was watching.