snowflake baby

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   A baby that is born following the transfer of a surplus embryo produced during the in…

   A baby that is born following the transfer of a surplus embryo produced during the in vitro fertilization of one woman to the womb of another woman who was not a cell donor.

   • Once Caroline and Jeffrey gave their consent--or Caroline gave it for them--the eleventh embryo could become the snowflake baby it was meant to be.
   • Brownback's presentation included a series of following the development of a child, the result of a discarded embryo, a so-called snowflake''' baby.
   • The first snowflake baby was born in the late 1990s, but even with the President's public push, only a couple hundred snowflake children have been born in the United States during the past 10 years

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