ABSTRACT
Requests for this topic seem to be never ending. Yet each time I write about it, further slants seem to emerge from those described in previous narratives, and as new perspectives unfold from the massive accumulation of events between 1960 and 2000. There seems little doubt that curiosity about its origins becomes ever deeper as in vitro fertilization (IVF) and its derivatives spread ever wider. I am still stirred by recollections of those early days, and of the days when Bourn Hall was opened in 1980 to become the largest clinic of its kind.
