All posts tagged "Vitro Fertilization"

The polarized issue that is Proposition 26, Mississippi's "Personhood Amendment" that would classify fertilized embryos as human beings, appears to be going down to the wire when the state's residents vote on whether to adopt it as law Tuesday evening.

(Reuters) - Mississippi on Tuesday could be the first state in the nation to define a fertilized egg as a person, a controversial concept aimed at outlawing abortion, some types of birth control and infertility methods that result in the loss of embryos.

Test-tube baby pioneer Robert Edwards of Britain wins 2010 Nobel Prize in medicine