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Britain moves a step closer to allowing three-parent babies
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MP says Britain risks 'isolating itself from the rest of the world'
No one wants to talk about the morality of IVF
July 13, 2012
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February 09, 2012
The woman who travelled to India for a surrogate was overjoyed, and saw the commercial transaction as mutually beneficial. But I found out it hard to celebrate
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