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To: jalisco555

"Her sister, Natalie, who also was conceived through in-vitro fertilization, in 1999 became the first "test-tube" baby to give birth."
Doesn't that contradict the main point of the story?


2 posted on 01/15/2007 7:14:48 AM PST by Buck W. (If you push something hard enough, it will fall over.)
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To: Buck W.

Yes.. and I believe the title should have included "natural" birth.


3 posted on 01/15/2007 7:16:35 AM PST by Almondjoy
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To: Buck W.

Not exactly. This girl is the first test tube baby, who has now given birth. Her sister, not the first test tube baby, is the first test tube baby to have given birth.


5 posted on 01/15/2007 7:19:27 AM PST by Fierce Allegiance ("Campers laugh at clowns behind closed doors.")
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To: Buck W.
Misplaced modifiers.

Louise Brown was the first test tube baby. She gave birth.

Her sister, Natalie, was also a test-tube baby. She was first of the test-tube babies to give birth.

So Louise was the first test-tube baby and she gave birth.
And Natalie was the first of the test-tube babies to have given birth.

That concludes English class for today.

6 posted on 01/15/2007 7:42:12 AM PST by Tanniker Smith (I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
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To: Buck W.
"Her sister, Natalie, who also was conceived through in-vitro fertilization, in 1999 became the first "test-tube" baby to give birth." Doesn't that contradict the main point of the story?

No int the case of Natalie, she was the test-tube baby who had a child first. In the case of Louise, she was the first test tube baby, and she just had a child.

8 posted on 01/15/2007 8:18:52 AM PST by jmcenanly (Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy. -- Robert A. Heinlein)
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