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HISTORY OF ARTIFICIAL HUMAN REPRODUCTION
B.C.
4004f.
From our very first ancestors onward, for almost 58
centuries all fetuses except Jesus were conceived from
sexual intercourse by their human fathers. All without
exception, Jesus too, were gestated in the wombs of their
biological human mothers.
450f.
Hippocrates: "I will not give a woman a pessary to produce
abortion."
A.D.
1790f.
London. First reported successful artificial inseminations
from husband (AIH), engineered by Dr. John Hunter.
1866.
U.S.A. First recorded successful AIH in the New World.
1884.
U.S.A. First recorded artificial insemination from Donor
(AID).
1896.
England. H.G. Wells's book The Island of Dr. Moreau
anticipates cellular engineering upon animals - producing
humanoid manbeasts which obey, and perform menial tasks
for, their human master.
1932.
U.S.A. Aldous Huxley, grandson of the famous evolutionist
T.H. Huxley, publishes his book Brave New World - a "25th-
century"
nightmare
of
genetically-engineered
humans
manufactured in test-tubes.
1944f.
U.S.A. Unsuccessful first attempts at human in vitro
fertilization (IVF), by Harvard's Dr. John Rock.
1948.
U.S.A. First Kinsey Report on human sexual behaviour
published.
1948.
World Medical Association's Declaration of Geneva: "I will
maintain the utmost respect for human life from the time
of conception; even under threat I will not use my medical
knowledge contrary to the laws of humanity."
1949.
Successful freezing and subsequent thawing of animal
sperm.
1949.
Following some Protestant Theologians, also Pope Pius XII
condemns artificial inseminations from Donors (AID).
1951.
Successful embryo transfer from one cow to another.
1952.
First calf successfully reproduced from thawed-out pre-
frozen semen; and first successful cloning of frogs from
tadpole cells.