PART 2
Choose the sentences (A-J) which best fill the gaps (09-17).  There is one extra sentence.

BABY-BEARING GRANDMOTHERS

Severino Antinori is an Italian obstetrician.  Dr Antinori’s claim to fame is not that he is simply one of
the many doctors who provide artificial fertilisation, but that he provides such artificial fertilisation for
women who are long past normal child-bearing age.  For example, in 1992, a 61-year-old widow from
Palermo, Sicily, had a baby.  Dr Antinori had planted in her an egg fertilised with her husband’s
sperm.   09. ......
After 32 years of childless marriage, another Sicilian housewife, Giuseppina Maganuca, had a baby
planted by Antinori at the age of 53.  She said:  “My baby is an angel, and the doctor is a saint... “
Another woman, Anita Blokziel, aged 56, a former circus acrobat from Amsterdam, gave birth to a
baby girl.  Of Antonori, she says:  “The doctor has made me the happiest of women.  10.......

The Catholic church is certain that Dr Antinori is not a performer of miracles. 11.......
The head of the church’s bio-ethical commission has condemned his work as “horrifying”.   12.......
The early work in this field was done by Simon Fishel.  He developed a technique for injecting a
single sperm into the female egg, the ovum. 13.......
According to Dr Fishel, “the only real problem that hasn’t been solved in this area is how old the
woman can be, and how safe the treatment is.  14........
Does this mean that women may continue to have children into their seventies and eighties,  that the
power-women of today may now put off having a family until 2040?  It seems like it.  15.........
It seems that about 30,000 women worldwide are being offered these hi-tech breeding systems.
They spend about $400 million a year.  16.........
The good doctor hit the headlines in Britain after it got into the newspapers that, as a result of his
efforts, an unnamed Englishwoman of 55 was expecting twins in December.  The news was greeted
with scorn and derision in the newspapers, so much so that Dr Antinori has been consulting a London-based libel lawyer.  17.........


A. Nobody has that information

B. It looks as if the granny-mummy, or, as the Italians call
them, le mamme-nonne, is going to be in the headlines for
a few months to come.

C. The whole process should be treated with the contempt it
deserves.

D. In its opinion, he is far more likely to be going to hell  than
heaven.

E. After taxes and overheads,  Dr Antinori’s clinic makes
$600,000 a year clear profit.

F. This technique has been combined with a hormone
treatment which rejuvenates the baby-carrying parts of
older women.

G. He has given me a miracle.

H. The Catholic press considers that he is creating
“prefabricated orphans” in that the parents will die before
their children have grown up or even left school.
I. According to Dr Antinori, he had been contacted by a
representative of CNN chairman Ted Turner, who wanted
to know if the saintly doctor would treat his wife, the
55-year-old Jane Fonda.

J. Her husband had died in 1985, but his sperm had been
frozen before his death.