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eggs to assist infertile couples
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CLEVELAND (AP) — The Cleve
land Clinic announced Tuesday it
will recruit women to donate eggs
for couples unable to have children
in what is believed to be the first pro
gram in the nation to use a pool of
anonymous donors.
The donor and recipient will be
matched according to physical char
acteristics but will remain unknown
to each other, a clinic official said.
The donor will supply the egg that
the recipient is unable to provide.
“I think the proper way of using
donor eggs is the way that most pro
grams use donor sperm — appropri
ately screened, appropriately
matched but anonymous donors,”
said Dr. Martin M. Quigley, director
of the clinic’s In Vitro Fertilization
and Embryo Replacement Program.
Quigley estimates there are more
than 100,GOO women in the United
States who are unable to have chil
dren because their ovaries don’t pro
duce eggs, they don’t have ovaries,
or their eggs are defective or carry
an inherited disease.
The Oocyte Donation Program
was approved by the clinic’s board
Tuesday. The Cleveland Clinic is a
renowned medical center that in-
Quigley said the clinic's in-vitro
fertilization program has a success
rate on the first attempt of 15 per
cent to 20 percent.
Under the clinic’s guidelines, the
donor must be aged 18 to 35, and it
“I think the proper way of using donor eggs is the way
that most programs use donor sperm — appropriately
screened, appropriately matched but anonymous do
nors. ”
— Dr. Martin M. Quigley, program director
The donors and recipientsc
matched according to nationals
gin, height, weight, hair coloil
color and blood type, thesanit|
of matching that is done
mited sperm.
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limited health risks fortheejl
nor, Quigley said. Those risksi
raise some ethical questions)
Lori B. Andrews, an attorney
the American Bar Federationinj
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tility treatments.
eludes an outpatient clinic, a 950-
bed hospital and research facilities.
The clinic plans to use the so-
called test-tube baby technique to
fertilize the donor eggs. The eggs
would be surgically removed from
the donor and fertilized in a labo
ratory by the sperm of the recipient’s
husband. The embryos then would
be put in the recipient's uterus.
married, must have her husband’s
consent. She will have to pass a phys
ical and psychological screening, and
cannot be related to or know the re
cipient.
Ehe recipient couple must be
married. The woman must have a
healthy uterus, and the man must
have a sufficient sperm count for
fertilization.
Andrews expects egg domd
inc lude medical students, then
source of donated sperm,
women who sympathize with J
with infertility problems.
In general, she said, thei
who gives birth has been recop
as the legal mother, and shet
expect me use of donated e$|
change that.
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at S5.000 for a single attempt.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A Sen
ate committee completed work
Tuesday on a bill that would prod
the nation’s airlines to improve serv
ice, while a Senate clash loomed over
a House-passed measure banning
smoking on most domestic flights.
Legislation sent to the full Senate
would require the nation’s airlines to
provide monthly reports to the gov
ernment of their on-time records,
canceled flights, lost luggage and
bumped passengers.
The government, in turn, would
be required to issue monthly reports,
which Senate aides said would likely
appear in the government’s Federal
Register and be distributed in news
releases to reporters.
It would also require the Trans
portation Department to establish a
toll-free phone number to handle
complaints from the rapidly growing
ranks of unhappy airline travelers.
The bill, approved by the Senate
Commerce, Science and Transporta
tion Committee, is opposed by the
Air Transport Association, which
represents U.S. airlines.
Thirteen American carriers have
asked the Transportation Depart
ment to compose a similar reporting
system, although participation
would be voluntary.
“We don’t think there ought to be
legislation,” Bill Jackman, a trans
port association spokesman, said.
In a letter to members of the Sen-
House votes to bon smoking
on flights of 2 hours or less
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
House on Monday voted to ban ciga
rette smoking on airline llights of
two hours or less, ignoring tobacco-
state lawmakers anil others who in
sisted more evidence is needed on
the hazards of passive smoke.
Rep. Harold Rogers, R-Ky., told
his colleagues that Congress should
more closely scrutinize the proposal
before making a judgment, arguing
that the proposal amounted to “a
rather serious modification of
American life.”
The proposal, passed by a 198-
193 vote, was an amendment to
$26.6 billion transportation spend
ing bill for fiscal 1988. The Reagan
administration has already dubbed
the overall bill too costly and threat
ened to veto it.
The smoking ban was introduced
by Reps. Richard Durbin, D-lti., and
C.W. Bill Young, R-Fla., who ran
into arguments that the measure
should be studied further by con
gressional committees with jurisdic
tion over the issue. Instead, Durbin
and Young argued that the question
was an easy one to decide because it
is a question of the public’s health.
“Let me suggest to you that this is
a deadly serious issue,” Durbin said.
The bill was to appropriate $11.1
billion in new spending for next year
and release up to $15.7 billion in
spending from the highway and air
port trust funds, which are built up
from fuel taxes and other user fees.
But under an amendment offered
by Rep. Nancy Johnson, R-Conn.,
the lawmakers voted 218-166 to cut
2 percent of the appropriated
money, or about $250 million, from
the bill.
ate commerce panel released 1 ues-
day, Transportation Secretary Eliza
beth H. Dole also indicated
opposition to the Senate measure.
She noted that her agency is con
sidering consumer protection regu
lations and argued that the bill “will
rule out potentially better ap
proaches to airline consumer protec
tion” because it would not leave
enough time for analysis. Federal
regulations requiring the reporting
would have to be ready within 90
days of the bill’s final approval.
Premier of Ukraine, eight others
removed from office in shakeup
Consumer legislation has )
moving through Congress this j
in response to growing compa
from airline customers about)
service. The House aviationsutki
mil tee plans to write its vera
the legislation next week.
On another front, battle lint-
gan being drawn in the Senatti)
measure the House approved:
Monday that would prohibit ]
rette smoking in airline flightsef
hours or less. Such a prohira
would mean an end to smolitd
80 percent of domestic U.S. fl™
Rep. Richard Durbin, D ill
proposal’s chief sponsor, said hi
searching for supporters in the
ate.
“I think it will be much toujjl
he said of the measure’s prosp
the Senate. The Senate, unlike
I louse, allows filibusters—effot
kill legislation with the threatofi
limited debate.
T he measure is an amendmeitj
the transportation appropriat
bill for fiscal 1988 that the House
proved. The Reagan administn
lias threatened to veto the en|
measure — which would
$26.6 billion in spending—sayi
is too expensive
Durbin said be will seek the
port of members of the Senate
propriations Committee, which
nave to approve that chambers
sion of the spending bill
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MOSCOW (AP) — The premier of the Ukraine has
been ousted along with at least eight other top officials
there in a shakeup that may be related to the area’s eco
nomic problems.
Not directly affected by the changes is Ukrainian
Communist Party chief Vladimir V. Shcherbitsky, but
the departure of several of his key aides suggests his
power base may have eroded.
Shcherbitsky is one of the last of the Soviet old guard
to retain his influential seat on the country’s 14-mem
ber national ruling body, the Politburo.
The Ukraine is the Soviet Union’s most populous re
public after the Russian Federation.
The reshuffle was made during a meeting of the
Ukrainian Supreme Soviet last week.
The reason behind it was not stated in reports on the
shakeup in Ukrainian newspapers that reached the So
viet capital on Tuesday.
It appeared, however, to be another step in Soviet
leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s effort to restructure the
Soviet economy.
Saturday’s issue of Pravda Ukrainy, the republic’s
party newspaper, said the 69-year-old Shcherbitsky
took part in the session that ordered the retirements.
Those ousted, however, were mostly long-time party
and government bureaucrats seen as the backbone of
Shcherbit sky’s power.
The government department chiefs responsible for
finance, planning and crucial consumer industries were
among those removed, indicating the shakeup was
prompted by “perestroika,” Gorbachev’s effort to re
structure the economy.
Pravda Ukrainy said republic Premier Alexander P.
Lyashko, 71, was retired after 15 years in the post and
replaced by the Ukraine’s planning chief, Vitaly A. Ma-
sol.
Sunday’s issue of the newspaper listed eight other re
public: officials removed from the Council of Ministers,
a vast Cabinet-like body composed of the heads of all
government departments.
Iraq attacks
Iranian oilfields
in Persian Gulf
MANAMA, Bahrain (AP)-
Iraq attacked offshore Irani;]
oilfields Tuesday in the Peril;
Gulf war, which appeared to!'
intensifying before the arrival c j lal
reflagged Kuwaiti tankers at
their U.S. Navy escorts.
A communique issued inBal
dad said Iraqi warplanes stm
Iran’s Rakhsh oilfields eastof(! wee ]
tar, in the southern gull,and: ter
targets were “engulfed in fire.'
Other jets bombed Farsiyali
land and attacked Iran’s main
export terminal on Kharglslat
in the northern gulf for
fourth time sinceJune 20.
Maritime salvage executt
based in the gulf said Iraqi plat
inflicted heavy damage on
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