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ExtraAgressiveHugger t1_ja9cqcp wrote

Reply to comment by More_Than_The_Moon in Seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo thoughts by Level-Somewhere-8961

I think the daughter was conceived in the 60s or 70s. Insemination might have been possible but probably wasn’t very reliable.

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tsh87 t1_ja9ejzo wrote

Or accepted.

There was a ton of backlash when fertility treatments like insemination and IVF were first announced. Tons of people, mostly religious types, saying "that's not how children should be conceived," calling them "test tube babies" etc.

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Level-Somewhere-8961 OP t1_ja9p9zt wrote

Yah I didn’t buy the whole not trusting a doctor or people wondering why they had to adopt, but mayyybeeee a different time.

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LegalAssassin13 t1_jaae3ax wrote

Well, then they run the risk of something getting into the gossip rags.

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