NEW FERTILITY TREATMENT AVOIDS EMRYO DEATHS, HIGH COSTS, AND DRUGS

Avoids huge expense and powerful drugs associated with IVF treatments

TOKYO, November 28, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A new fertility treatment which has been successful in clinical trials avoids

the ethical qualms associated with in vitro fertilization and artificial insemination. The technique involves a doctor

removing a couple of ripe ova from a woman after intercourse and transplanting the ova at the back of the uterus directly in

the path of the sperm.

The procedure was presented by Dr. Osamu Kato, director of Kato Ladies' Clinic in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward, to an in vitro

fertilization (IVF) society meeting in Kobe on Sunday. The ovum uterus transplant, as it is called, takes only about five

minutes from start to finish and avoids the horrendously expensive cost of IVF. Moreover, the method also avoids the

necessity of drugs used in IVF which hyper stimulate the ovaries to produce large numbers of ripe ova.

In a recent interview, Dr. Rovert Walley, who just returned from Rome where his Matercare International organized the second

international workshop of Catholic obstetricians and gynecologists, explained that infertility treatments such as Dr. Kato's

would be morally acceptable. Walley, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology, explained that the method is merely assisting

nature to take its course since the sexual act remains the procreative act with the method.

See the report on the new method from the Asahi Shimbun November 13:

http://www.asahi.com/english/national/K2002111300528.html

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