NEW FERTILITY TREATMENT AVOIDS EMRYO DEATHS, HIGH COSTS, ANDDRUGS

Avoids huge expense and powerful drugs associated with IVFtreatments

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

the ethical qualms associated with in vitro fertilizationand artificial insemination. Thetechnique involves a doctor

removing a couple of ripe ova from a woman after intercourseand 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 ofKato Ladies' Clinic in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward, to an in vitro

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

See the report on the new method from the Asahi ShimbunNovember 13:

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

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