Hi I'm Gillian St Lawrence, In July The Washington Post published my story "By freezing embryos, couples try to utilize fertility while delaying parenthood."
Spurned by the strong reactions I received from people, Alexandra Frean of the Times of London decided to interview me and just published "The girl who's put family plans in the deep freeze."
At age 30, despite nine happy years of marriage, my husband and I were not able to offer a child the time and financial resources we believed our child deserved. But, our fertility clocks were ticking. We knew that once we hit our mid-30's we would face significantly greater risks of infertility, miscarriage and genetic abnormality. With no solution to this dilemma we decided that we would not have children - until we found out about embryo freezing.
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The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is changing - that's according to the BBC's Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen. In his latest radio bulletin, Jeremy says,
'A religious war is now being grafted on what used to be fundamentally a competition for territory between two national movements. You can make deals with nationalists. It's much harder with people who believe they're doing God's work.'
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Port-au-Prince still has a hangover.
The disastrous and anarchistic environment that prevails reminds us this city hasn't recovered from that deadly day, when so many thousands of lives were destroyed.
It's the weekend, and like most cities in the world, the dwellers of the capital are having fun: men are having cheap moonshine in an effort to numb their pains and fool their reality, young women are selling their misery to desperate males in need of an illusion of well-being, children are trading their innocence for sweets to monsters wearing the masks of philanthropists. The city is hell-bound.
But these aren't the stories that are making the headlines these days, the elections are; mostly Wyclef Jean's candidacy.
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Where did we come from? How did we get here? Just a couple of the questions I'm confident have crossed your mind at some point in your life.
If your answer to these questions is God, the latest book by eminent British scientist Stephen Hawking might make you think twice. Prof. Hawking has revealed that modern physics has no place for the God when it comes to the creation of the universe.
So if God didn't create the universe, who did?
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Today Tony Blair's awaited memoirs,
A Journey, have been published and one of the
revelations in his book is his relationship with his Chancellor and successor, Gordon Brown. It's no secret that the two men didn't get on but Tony Blair says:
"He was difficult, at times maddening? Yes. But he was also strong, capable and brilliant, and those were qualities for which I never lost respect. "
In a BBC interview he says:
"The relationship with Gordon Brown was very very difficult but also very close. Towards the end it was frankly hard, going on impossible but that for large parts of the time we were in government, he was an immense source of strength.
But this book goes beyond the relationship between these two men, it talks about September 11th, the Iraq war, the death of Diana Princess of Wales, peace in Northern Ireland and even his use of alcohol as a crutch when things got tough. Here are some of the key quotes from his political memoirs.
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