Letters: Oct. 1, 1984

Test-Tube Babies

To the Editors:

Your article "The New Origins of Life" [SCIENCE, Sept. 10] showed how painful infertility can be and what people will go through to conceive. The doctors who help these couples are not interfering with Mother Nature or God; they are answering prayers.

Nancy W. Heitz Crestwood, N. Y.

If the older generation found it difficult to teach us about the birds and the bees, my generation will find it impossible. How will I explain "XM & YD by AI with Gestation M" to my daughter when she asks me where...

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