The book's description of GIFT is accurate, but to say that the Church's prohibition of artificial insemination doesn't apply in this case because what is inserted into the recipient woman is no longer only sperm but a catheter containing both
a retrieved egg and sperm retrieved after intercourse only lays Catholic bioethics open to the charge that it is based on an arbitrary set of boundaries discernible only to the well initiated.
Not exact matches
After the woman's
eggs have been
retrieved through the normal IVF protocol
and are ready for fertilization, the mitochondria taken from her stem cells are injected into an
egg along with a
sperm cell.
Once they
retrieved batches of
eggs from 4 months of treatment, they combined them with her husband's
sperm,
and then were going to test the embryos
and transfer.
The
eggs are
retrieved and fertilized in a laboratory using
sperm from the intended father or donor.
During IVF, mature
eggs are collected (
retrieved) from a woman's ovaries
and fertilised by
sperm in a laboratory.