News Scrapbook 1985

Walnut Creek, CA (Contra Costa Co.) Contra Costa Times

(Cir. D. 77,358) (Cir. S. 79,605)

OCT 7 - 1985

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/ ,r I HRR l\1,yitro pro ess moves to doctors' offices

debate. There is no human concepti (the fertilized egg) outside the body, only the egg and the sperm," said Zorn. Gary Jones, a Ph.D. philosopher and authonty on medical ethics at the University af Sao Diego, said some people object to in -Tttro fertilization because they believe the embryo is a human being from the moment of conception. Creating it outside the womb and rein- serting it is wrong, they argue, since it results-in preg- nancy only about 20 percent of the time. "You don't hear much about the concepti that don't make it. To the Catholic Church these are human be- ings, so this is at least reckless homicide," Jones said. But these arguments have force only if in vitro fertil • ization leads to a higher rate of failure than natural con• ception, Jones said. And this is not clear. The body naturally selects out and destroys about 75 percent of all fertilized eggs before one attaches to the womb and a pregnancy begins, he said. In vitro laboratories tore frozen embryos to use if the first transfer does not work. John Muir's program has reinserted two into patients, but neither resulted in a pregnancy, Zorns id. The transfer pr edure reduces the cost of in vitro fertilization to less than $4,000, since there is no labora- tory charge and no doctor's fee for the reinsertion. The procedure cannot be performed on women with blocked Fallopian tubes, but offers hope for men with low sperm counts. Another new technique simplifying in vitro for some women is transvesical aspiration, a 2-year-old method of removj.ng eggs from the womb. The conventional method involves inserting a deVJce called a laparoscope through the woman's navel and filling the stomach with carbon dioxide, so the ovaries can be seen. ' A needle with a suction device is inserted through the laparoscope and guided into the ovaries. The suc- tion device removes fluid containing the eggs. The eggs are then taken to the lab and fertilized in a glass petri dish with the male's sperm. They are rein• serted in the woman 72 hours later, after the embryos have undergone several cell divisions.

WALNUT CREEK even years after the first test- 1\ib baby was born, ·1r amlined medical procedures are moving the operation out of the hospital and mto the doctor's of 1c And 11 1· now po 1ble for fluids containing the egg nd sperm to he mix n immediately replaced m the woman, so cone pt10n n take place in the womb r th- er than the gla petri dish - the so-called test tube which gave th babi · their nickname Thi. proc could change the foundation of ethical d bate over in vitro fertilization, which some poeple ob• ct to bccau th embryo is created outside the moth- ·r womb Another new proc dure allows doctors to use local rnther than n ral an thes a while retrieving the maktng the op ration po 1ble m a doc-

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GLENN ZORN, director of the in vitro fertilization program at John Muir Hospital, sits in his laboratory. The hospital hopes to achieve another first this

sperm while the woman is still on the operating table. The sperm and eggs are reinserted at once into the uterus and fertilization most likely takes place inside the womb, rather than in the glass petri dish, said Glenn Zorn, an embryologist, who is scientific director

month when it performs a Gamete intra-Fallopian tube transfer. The procedure is so new there have been only 10 published accounts worldwide of pregnancies With this technique, eggs are removed from the woman·s ovaries and mixed in solution with the male's achieved through it.

of the · vitro laboratory.

"It could change some of the conditions of ethical

Oceanside, CA (San Diego Co.) Blade Tribune (Cir. D. 29,089) (Cir. S. 30,498) 0 T7

San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) Dally Transcript (Cir. D. 7,415)

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P. C. B , 888 ·---'New judge in Vista VISTA - William Drar2 ~ I r

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w-'d_eJ_mty distri~t attorney and former Marine, becl!me a mumc1pal court Judge here durmg ceremonies Friday. Draper, 50, was appointed to the position b~ Gov. Geo_rge Duekmejian and sworn in by the pres1dmg Vista Mumc1pal Court Judge Victor E. Ramirez. . Draper, a 1966 graduate of th~ Univ~!l._ of §an Diego Law Sch~gin his duties as Judgeartfie Vista courttroi:ise on Oct. 21. He was a deputy district attorney for seven years before his appointment. For two years, Draper served in the district attorney's appellate division before moving to the Vista courthou~e. Draper was in the Marines for 21 years before he retired from the service seven years ago.

El Cajon, CA (San Diego Co) Dai ly Cal ifornian (Cir. D 100,271)

San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) Dally Transcript (Cir. D. 7,415)

San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) Daily Transcript (Cir. D. 7,415)

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,}l.l/1,n '• P. E.:n~ Ed\lard;-n...rr4" El ~on h_as Jomed th(;~'.based law fu:m. or Schall, Boudreau and Gore Wilham J. Schall, president and _..semor partner, said Wedell had been a_ partner m the Miss10n Valley law firm of O'Dorisio, Wedell and Wade 1' r ~bout five years. O'Dorisio of Pom Loma also joined Schall Boudreau and Gore. · V~ell 42 graduated from San Jose State College and wa a captain D lnla,pd B ::=::::::====:::;::;=:== \ in '"he Air Force. He rece1 ed a Juris D0<:torate degree from .ll.e Univer- sity of S~IJ...Qi& o School orI::aw in 1975 and his LL • in taxa- tion from SDSl' in 1 . c has ~erved ~s an adjunct professor of- .orP?ratlons at Western State l"ni- ver lly College of Law and a . an ins~ruc·tor of tax courses at :-,.;at1onal University He also arbitrates com- mercial cases for the American Ar b1tr:at1on .\sso iation In his new pos1t1on, he will concentrate on busi- ne sand estate planning and related matters * B

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P. C. 8 t 888 _,, William Draper Jr.,):O, a Vista d puty d1stric rnce 1978, has been appoint d tu the Mun1c1pal Court by Gov George DeukmeJ1an. The appointment was nnnounced Friday. Drap•r replaces ,Judge Zalman Scherer, who had been elevated to the Superior Court. Draper graduated from Dartmouth Collef(P in 957, earned 1 ontmued01 P ge6A) I

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,/' * * / South African violence caused by aparthei d ~~.,!:,c:( exammed tomorrow at ti,<.p~ discussion sponsored by the World Affairs Council at 7 p.m. in the Manchest- er Conference Center at USD. Ex- perts on the panel will b-;Anih~ny Ngubo, born and raised in South Africa and now a professor of soci- ology at Mira Costa College; former U.S. Ambassador to Tan- zania, Richard Viets; attorney Paul Kerkstra, author of a study on the economic and political effects of a UN proposed system of sanctions on South Africa; and UCSD politi- cal science professor Arend Li- jphart. Panel moderator will be retired senior U.S. diplomat C. Ar- thur Borg. .... *