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A is for Alpha. Alphas are at the top of the caste system.

B is for Bokanovsky's Process. Bokanovsky's Process produces mass human embryos by budding.

C is for Centrifugal Bumble-puppy. Centrifugal Bumble-puppy is a common children's game.

D is for Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning. The D.H.C. is the administrator of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre.

E is for Epsilon. Epsilons are at the bottom of the caste system.

F is for Ford. Ford is the spiritual basis of the World State.

G is for Gamma. Gammas are in the middle of the caste system.

H is for hypnopædia. Hypnopædia is a series of repeated phrases used to teach the citizens of the World State common knowledge.

I is for Ivan Pavlov. Ivan Pavlov is the basis for neo-Pavlovian conditioning within the World State.

J is for John. John is a Savage whose parents are Linda and the D.H.C.

K is for kiva. A kiva is a ceremonious underground chamber at the Reservation.

L is for Lenina Crowne. Lenina Crowne is a Beta Plus who works in the Fertilizing Room.

M is for malthusian belt. Malthusian belts are fashionable belts used to house contraceptives.

N is for neo-Pavlovian conditioning. Neo-Pavlovian conditioning is used on infants to condition them to their specific caste.

O is for orgy-porgy. Orgy-porgy is a spiritual orgy in which participants eat soma-spiked ice cream and see Ford.

P is for pneumatic. Pneumatic describes many things as empty and full of air, such as chairs, someone's shoes, and even Lenina Crowne.

Q is for queer. Queer is Lenina's most often used word for describing odd situations.

R is for Reservation. The Reservation is where Savages live and where sexual reproduction occurs.

S is for soma. Soma is a drug that is utilized by the World State to remain happy at all times.

T is for T-model. T-model was the first car produced on Ford's assembly line, and is often used as a spiritual "T" gesture.

U is for undulation. Undulation describes the swaying motion in which Lenina walks. V is for viviparous.

Viviparous describes giving birth to live young, a process which has been banned by the World State.

W is for Westminster Abbey. Westminster Abbey is a nightclub in the World State.

X for X-rays. X-rays are compared to words by Hemholtz Watson; if used properly, they can go through anything.

Y is for Young Women's Fordian Association. The YWFA is a of religious group which Fanny Crowne is a part of.

Z is for zippicamiknicks. Zippicamiknicks are a common one-piece underwear for females.

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RG 6 - A Five-Sentence Version and Reaction

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RG 6 - A Five-Sentence Version and Reaction

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p. 141-151

"Bring these two individuals back to London with you." "Marx," he said, "can you show any reason why I should not now execute the judgment passed upon you?" "Yes, I can," Bernard answered in a very loud voice. "You made me have a baby," she screamed above the uproar. He came in at once, paused for a moment just inside the door, looked round, then soft on his moccasined feet strode quickly across the room, fell on his knees in front of the Director, and said in a clear voice: "My father!"

p. 151-161

After the scene in the Fertilizing Room, all uppercaste London was wild to see this delicious creature who had fallen on his knees before the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning--or rather the ex-Director, for the poor man had resigned immediately afterwards and never set food inside the Centre again--had flopped down and called him (the joke was almost too good to be true!) "my father." She took as much as twenty grammes a day. Bernard now found himself, for the first time in his life, treated not merely normally, but as a person of outstanding importance. "That young man will come to a bad end," they said, prophesying the more confidently in that they themselves would in due course personally see to it that the end was bad. "The Savage," wrote Bernard in his report to Mustapha Mond, "shows surprisingly little astonishment at, or awe of, civilized inventions."

p. 161-171

"Asked me if I'd take the Savage to the feelies this evening." "He's terribly good-looking; don't you think so?" "Because, you see, Fanny, I like him." He was obscurely terrified lest she should cease to be something he could feel himself unworthy of. "But, John . . . I thought you were . . . I mean, aren't you? . . ."

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This article discusses the concept of "test tube babies". This connects directly to the ideas of the World State and even the Reservation which Bernard and Lenina visit. Bernard and Lenina meet a young man named John who was born by a woman, Linda, who once was a World State citizen. Since having a child is frowned upon, Linda relocated to the Reservation. Here, John speaks to Lenina and Bernard about being born. This makes Lenina uncomfortable (p. 118) due to the World State's belief in in vitro fertilization, which is discussed in the article. Since babies are made in test tubes where Lenina is from, nobody is born. On the other hand, people are born in the Reservation. Referred to as savages, Reservation members believe in the "old fashioned" way of having children: by biological conception (p. 102). The article mentions implantation of fertilized embryos into the female's uterus in order for the child to be born.

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"Test tube babies" are not that rare these days.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 1.5% of babies born in the US are conceived using what's called Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART), of which the most common procedure is in vitro fertilization (IVF).

IVF is a procedure in which eggs are taken from a woman's ovaries and fertilized with sperm in a petri dish. Then one or more fertilized embryos are placed in the woman's uterus, where one will hopefully implant and grow into a baby.

Though thousands of IVF cycles are done every year in the US, it's tricky to get a sense of an individual woman's chance of conceiving with the procedure. The graphs below, from the CDC, show exactly how often IVF resulted in a baby for women who went through the costly treatment using their own eggs, not donor eggs. A single IVF cycle costs an average of $12,400, according to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM), and women often need multiple tries to get pregnant.

About 36% of IVF cycles result in pregnancy, and 29.4% of cycles result in a baby:

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A live birth rate of about 30% for IVF cycles is really pretty respectable. A healthy, fertile 30-year-old woman has about a 20% chance of getting pregnant without assistance every month that she tries, according to the ASRM. That decreases to 5% chance each month for women aged 40.

To put that IVF success data in a slightly different frame, however, a majority of IVF cycles do not result in pregnancy:

CDC

The flip side of a 35.9% pregnancy rate for IVF cycles is that 63.4% of cycles don't result in pregnancy.

A woman doing IVF may have a better chance of getting pregnant that she would without the procedure, but it's nowhere near a sure thing.

Age matters

The data in the graphs above group women of all ages together in reporting IVF outcomes, which can be somewhat misleading. A woman's age is the most important factor influencing the success of IVF when she uses her own eggs, according to the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART), the professional organization for IVF clinics.

When the success of IVF cycles is plotted by women's age, it becomes clear why SART says age is so important:

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Around 40% of IVF cycles result in babies for women aged 32 and younger. Not even 10 years later, for women aged 40, that success rate is cut in half to less than 20%.

A live birth rate of about 20% for 40-year-old women is not quite as bad as it sounds - remember it's about the same chance a healthy, fertile 30-year-old woman has of becoming pregnant every month she tries, and far more than a 40-year-old woman's chance without IVF.

Still, a 40-year-old woman considering IVF doesn't have the 30% chance of having a baby she might expect if she just saw average IVF success rates reported, and many people underestimate the effect age will have on their fertility. Of eight top misconceptions about infertility specialist Dr. Joshua Klein identified in a column for CNN, two were related to aging.

As with any medical procedure, the costs, risks, and discomfort of IVF have to be weighed as well as potential benefits. IVF isn't cheap and isn't always covered by insurance - a recent survey found that 70% of women who used fertility treatments like IVF went into debt doing so.

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Besides the financial cost, women have to deal with the discomfort of to stimulate the uterus. The possible injecting themselves with hormones daily side effects of the hormone treatment include bloating, nausea, throwing up, diarrhea, soreness, and weight gain. In rare cases, the ovaries are overstimulated and swell suddenly, which throws off the body's fluid balance and can cause potentially life-threatening blood clots.

For couples who try to conceive through IVF, a lot more is at stake financially, emotionally, and physically, even if the success rate is often better than the traditional method.

While looking at the national averages for IVF success rates is a good start for dispelling misconceptions, pregnancy and live birth rates differ from clinic to clinic, and the data don't tell the whole story. There are many different causes of infertility, and IVF does not address the direct problem for every cause. Only a doctor can say what chance IVF has of success for a particular couple.

Even though the data is there, SART discourages using success rates to compare fertility clinics. Data can give women a clear picture of what average success rates for IVF actually are, but can't possibly predict what will happen for each individual patient.

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The success rates of 'test tube babies' are nowhere near what people think

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"Test tube babies" are not that rare these days. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 1.5% of babies born in the US are conceived using what's called Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART), of which the most common procedure is in vitro fertilization (IVF).

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A dystopia is a futuristic society which is seemingly perfect, but hides its flaws from citizens and frowns upon individuality. By participating in yesterday's roundtable discussions, I was able to see just how much I haven't thought about as far as where our current actions will lead us; things which I don't consider to be a big deal as of right now, may be a completely different story in the near future. Current government practices such as surveillance and wire-tapping, as well as genetic research in order to perfect embryos are considerably pseudo-dystopian. Dystopian ideas which I have already found in Brave New World include restriction of independent thought, dehumanization, banishment of the natural world, and the illusion of perfection. All of these ideas come from the first scene, where the DHC tells the students about all of their society's miraculous accomplishments involving in vitro fertilization.