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National › Artificial insemination clinics halved from 2003 on declining donors

The number of medical facilities performing artificial insemination by a donor, or AID, was nearly halved in Japan from 2003 due to the difficulty of… ...full story at Japan Today

from Japan Today on Sat, May 24 2008

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