{"id":69007,"date":"2024-12-22T09:27:56","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T09:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=69007"},"modified":"2024-12-22T09:27:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T09:27:56","slug":"a-retired-nhs-scientist-has-sensationally-revealed-that-ivf-pioneer-patrick-steptoe-whose-work-led-to-the-worlds-first-test-tube-baby-used-sperm-from-lots-of-medical-staff-without-keeping-reco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/12\/22\/a-retired-nhs-scientist-has-sensationally-revealed-that-ivf-pioneer-patrick-steptoe-whose-work-led-to-the-worlds-first-test-tube-baby-used-sperm-from-lots-of-medical-staff-without-keeping-reco\/","title":{"rendered":"A retired NHS scientist has sensationally revealed that IVF pioneer Patrick Steptoe, whose work led to the world&#8217;s first test tube baby, used sperm from &#8216;lots&#8217; of medical staff without keeping records of the children they fathered."},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2024\/12\/22\/01\/93372785-14218065-Dr_Steptoe_later_pioneered_in_vitro_fertilisation_IVF_and_the_wo-a-2_1734830760437.jpg\" alt=\"IVF pioneer Patrick Steptoe, whose work led to the world's first test tube baby, used sperm from 'lots' of medical staff without keeping records of the children they fathered, a former colleague has divulged\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A retired\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-4abb2120-c002-11ef-84e2-1ff574a4ecf2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/nhs\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">NHS<\/a><\/span>\u00a0scientist has sensationally revealed that\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-4ab94c60-c002-11ef-84e2-1ff574a4ecf2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/ivf\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">IVF<\/a><\/span> pioneer Patrick Steptoe, whose work led to the world&#8217;s first test tube baby, used sperm from &#8216;lots&#8217; of medical staff without keeping records\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14218065\/IVF-pioneer-used-sperm-medical-staff-no-records.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A retired\u00a0NHS\u00a0scientist has sensationally revealed that\u00a0IVF pioneer Patrick Steptoe, whose work led to the world&#8217;s first test tube baby, used sperm from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-69007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IVF-process-scaled.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69009,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69007\/revisions\/69009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}