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Richard V. Grazi

The Fertility Dilemma

Richard V. Grazi, M.D. is the Director of Reproductive Endocrinology at Maimonides Medical Center in New York, and the founder of GENESIS Fertility & Reproductive Medicine. This article appears in issue 6 of Conversations, the journal of the Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals.

When the first baby was born after conception in vitro, the news was extraordinary in ways that bear recalling some 30 years later. Few before then had imagined that human conception had been so distilled to its scientific essence that it could be captured in a test tube. When Steptoe and Edwards announced their stunning accomplishment to a captivated global audience, those listening could only wonder where the new science of in vitro fertilization would take humanity.

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