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HISTORY OF ARTIFICIAL HUMAN REPRODUCTION B.C. 4004f. From our very first ancestors onward, for almost 58 centuries all fetuses except Jesus were conceived from sexual intercourse by their human fathers. All without exception, Jesus too, were gestated in the wombs of their biological human mothers. Hippocrates: "I will not give a woman a pessary to produce abortion."

450f.

A.D. 1790f.

London. First reported successful artificial inseminations from husband (AIH), engineered by Dr. John Hunter. U.S.A. First recorded successful AIH in the New World. U.S.A. First recorded artificial insemination from Donor (AID). England. H.G. Wells's book The Island of Dr. Moreau anticipates cellular engineering upon animals - producing humanoid manbeasts which obey, and perform menial tasks for, their human master. U.S.A. Aldous Huxley, grandson of the famous evolutionist T.H. Huxley, publishes his book Brave New World - a "25thcentury" nightmare of genetically-engineered humans manufactured in test-tubes. U.S.A. Unsuccessful first attempts at human in fertilization (IVF), by Harvard's Dr. John Rock. U.S.A. First published. Kinsey Report on human sexual vitro

1866. 1884.

1896.

1932.

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1948.

behaviour

1948.

World Medical Association's Declaration of Geneva: "I will maintain the utmost respect for human life from the time of conception; even under threat I will not use my medical knowledge contrary to the laws of humanity." Successful sperm. freezing and subsequent thawing of animal

1949.

1949.

Following some Protestant Theologians, also Pope Pius XII condemns artificial inseminations from Donors (AID). Successful embryo transfer from one cow to another. First calf successfully reproduced from thawed-out prefrozen semen; and first successful cloning of frogs from tadpole cells.

1951. 1952.

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American G.I. George changed by operation into Christine Jorgenson. American Model Penal Code would... [continues]

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