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MULTIPLE BIRTHS CREATE MULTIPLICITY IF ISSUES.(DAILY BREAK)

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From: The Virginian Pilot
Date: 19960913
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Byline: Jennifer Dziura

THE DIRTY WORK in Aldous Huxley's ``Brave New World'' was done by what experts are now calling ``supertwins.'' A single fertilized egg would be split into 80 or 90 little fertilized egg bits. These potential laborers would then be inserted into bottles, destined to hatch into 80 or 90 identical siblings.

Just as groups that might be called ``centituplets'' were commonplace in Huxley's world, the United States has seen an explosion of womb-sharers since the 1970s. ``Smithsonian'' magazine reported this month that fertility treatments are ...

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