Hello all. I'm trying to get back from England - mentally that is. In the
International Edition of Newsweek, Sept. 4 was an article by Sharon Begley
entitled "The Baby Myth", about IVF, GIFT, ZIFT, etc. At the end was an
interesting quote to which I took exception and addressed in one of my
letters-to-the-editor. A reproductive specialist was quoted as saying
that all the fertility technologies were "an anomaly of medicine" in that
the "elite of society" were "experimental subjects" for the first time.
In my reply, I listed just SOME of the obstetrical technologies which
actually are or were "experiments" and almost always "run" on the
"elite". Among them, of course, is bottle feeding and messing around with
breastfeeding and perinatal bonding. (I put it more elegantly, needless
to say). Maybe some of you can get this article and also respond. Judy K.
in Israel