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Unforseen Hazards of Advanced Reproductive Science

Brian Doherty | 12.12.2002 1:59 AM


A British embryologist was just convicted for pumping eight women full of saline solution when they thought they were -- and were paying for -- having embryos emplanted. Science marches on; human perfidy, alas, often manages to keep up.

Brian Doherty was a senior editor at Reason and author of Ron Paul's Revolution: The Man and the Movement He Inspired (Broadside Books).