Louise Brown Quotes
I used to think about how I was conceived quite a lot when I was about 10 or 11, but I don't think about it at all now that so many other babies have been born in the same way.
Brown, Louise, and Martin Powell. My Life As the World's First Test-Tube Baby. Bristol Books, 2015.
This is a fascinating quotation. In general we associate religious fundamentalism and especially theocracy with retrograde and ancient views of living with modernity avoided wherever possible. However, in Iran, where almost all other fundamentalist leaders have claimed that in vitro fertilization in general and 3rd-party donation in particular are against God’s law, the Supreme Leader, not only allowed this techniques but also instituted major programs of birth control and in vitro fertilization to allow the woman to control her reproduction. His stricture was that the parents of these children bring them up following Islamic law.
Louise Joy Brown is an English woman who was the first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilisation experiment (IVF). Her birth, following a procedure pioneered in Britain, has been lauded among "the most remarkable medical breakthroughs of the 20th Century".