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The problem is that it is very clear that an egg and a spermatazoa are not a human being.
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There are tiny eukaryotic algae cells with diameters in the 2 micron range, making them similar in size to prokaryotic cells, and there are very large bacteria, but even human spermatazoa are much larger than a typical prokaryotic cell. harold
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They suggested that he should've used a theologically correct condom with tiny holes in the reservoir tip so that the spermatazoa would have only a fighting chance to impregnate the mother.
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Perhaps, he could harvest enough horse spermatazoa to equip a spermatozoan-American cavalry.
Archive 2005-05-01 2005
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Thus, there is competition among the individual spermatazoa, plus a major set of factors in the vaginal-to-uterine environment: e.g., a lower pH tends to favor X-chromosome bearing sperm, as does a longer delay before the ovum “ripens” X-bearing spermatazoa live longer and swim more slowly than their Y-bearing brothers kin.
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Perhaps, he could harvest enough horse spermatazoa to equip a spermatozoan-American cavalry.
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Perhaps, he could harvest enough horse spermatazoa to equip a spermatozoan-American cavalry.
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Fertilisation occurs only when a male-cell (spermatazoon) unites with a female-cell (ovum); in other words, when the spermatazoa in the seminal fluid of a man meet and unite with the germ or ovum in the body of a woman.
Safe Marriage A Return to Sanity Ettie A. Rout 1899
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A woman should first push up, as far as possible, a suitable suppository, and then insert the rubber pessary (slightly soaped -- with soap-suds), so as to occlude the whole of the upper part of her genital passage and thus cover the mouth of the womb and effectively prevent entrance of the spermatazoa.
Safe Marriage A Return to Sanity Ettie A. Rout 1899
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If the rubber pessary has been properly fitted, and _it is not porous_, the protection should be complete; but if, by any accident, spermatazoa should get beyond the rubber pessary, they will be destroyed and tangled in the melted suppository -- provided, of course, that a suitable suppository has been used.
Safe Marriage A Return to Sanity Ettie A. Rout 1899
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