Of all the human biological capacities, procreation is one of the strangest. Unlike any of the others, some people desperately want to use that capacity to have children and some people no less desperately want to avoid having children. No such diversity exists with our capacity to see, taste, smell, think, walk, or hear. We all want them and when, now and then, someone does no (...)
January 30, 2004
Books
Where the Slippery Slope Began
Pandora's BabyHow the First Test Tube Babies Sparked the Reproductive RevolutionRobin Marantz HenigHoughton Mifflin, $25, 256 pp.
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