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To: Lane3 who wrote (23320)	7/8/2006 4:14:40 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541522

In Italy, it's illegal to destroy the embryos, they all have to be implanted, so it's required to fertilize no more embryos than can be used. In case you don't know how in vitro fertilization works, the woman is given hormones to ripen her eggs, and the eggs are removed with a needle using ultrasound guidance, placed in a petri dish and the man's sperm is added. So it's really not impossible to fertilize only the ones you intend to use, except that the procedure itself is difficult, expensive, and risky (the woman's ovaries can become infected which can destroy them).