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Research Priorities and the Future of Pregnancy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 December 2011

TIMOTHY F. MURPHY
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The term “ectogenesis” has been around for about a century now, and it is generally understood as the development of embryos and fetuses outside a uterus. In this sense, all in vitro fertilization (IVF) is ectogenesis, but in vitro development can only proceed to a certain point, at which time human embryos are then either implanted in the attempt to achieve a pregnancy, frozen for that use in the future, used in research, or discarded.

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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , January 2012 , pp. 78 - 89
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