Thirty years ago Friday, Louise Brown came into the world amid alarmist predictions that her birth would end sex. Jeremiahs such as writer Jeremy Rifkin wailed that in-vitro ("under glass") fertilization would harm the future Louise. Bioethicist Leon Kass then warned that in-vitro fertilization, or IVF, by sundering the bonds ...

... study shows it may also be a problem when found much earlier. The study, led by Dr. John Owen of the University of Alabama in Birmingham, is published in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association. The cervix is the cylindrical ...