Seed

THE SEED

THE SEED" 1993
steel, stainless steel, plastic, electrical and pneumatic components, brass, aluminum
7' x 3' x 3'

August, 1993. "Two British women who were implanted with the wrong embryos during fertility treatment are claiming damages, a medical charity said Monday in London. The two women, whose cases were unrelated, chose to have abortions after being told by doctors the embryos they were carrying were not there own......(Quote taken from Rocky Mountain News wire services, August 10, 1993)

"In March 1985 a young New YorkCity couple faced a tragic dilemma. They were newlyweds and had not yet started a family. But the husband had cancer and continued chemotherapy would make it difficult for him to father a child. The couple decided to store some of his sperm in a Manhattan sperm bank. After a year the wife decided she wanted to have a baby as soon as possible, and so she was artificially inseminated..........She gave birth to a daughter in December 1986....DNA TESTS ON THE CHILD AND ON THE HUBAND'S REMAINING DEPOSITS AT THE SPERM BANK,.......HAVE CONFIRMED THERE IS NO GENETIC LINK BETWEEN THE TWO." (Quote taken from Newsweek March 19, 1990)

"The Seed addresses this disturbing problem of misplaced sperm and embryos by allowing people to do their cryogenic banking at home away from the humiliating laboratory environment and inevitable confusion of commercial cryogenic sperm banks. Without specific regulations sperm banks set their own guidelines that can lead to tragedy.
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