Designer Babies et FIV

📋 Plan du Cours

1. La naissance de Louise Brown
2. Le fonctionnement de la FIV
3. Les effets de la naissance
4. Le débat éthique et politique

📖 1. La naissance de Louise Brown

★ À maîtriser

• On July 25, 1978, at 11.47pm, Louise Brown became the first person ever to be born through IVF.

• Louise Brown was born in Manchester, England, and was conceived in a laboratory.

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• Louise Brown was widely covered by the press and became a sensation in reproductive medicine.

💡 Astuce mémo

Un bébé dans une éprouvette devient une unéé mondiale

📖 2. Le fonctionnement de la FIV

🔑 Notions clés & Définitions

• In vitro fertilisation : a technique in which an egg and sperm are fertilised in a tube to create an embryo

★ À maîtriser

• 🔄 The IVF process consists of: fertilising the mother’s egg with the father’s sperm in a tube, creating an embryo, implanting the embryo in the woman’s womb, allowing it to become a foetus

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• IVF stands for In Vitro Fertilisation.

💡 Astuce mémo

Egg and sperm → embryo → womb → foetus

📖 3. Les effets de la naissance

★ À maîtriser

• Since 1978, millions of babies have been born through IVF.

• Louise Brown’s birth gave hope to millions of childless couples throughout the world.

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