Abstract
‘Test-tube’ babies are not grown in test tubes as the name might imply. Louise Brown and the many hundreds of ‘test-tube’ babies around the world were conceived by IVF (in vitro fertilisation), where women’s eggs are removed from our ovaries and fertilised in a laboratory dish with men’s sperm. If a normal looking embryo results, it is inserted into the woman’s womb. The embryo insertion procedure is called embryo replacement or embryo transfer.
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Spallone, P. (1989). IVF on women. In: Beyond Conception. Women in Society. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19904-4_4
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