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  Land mines in advanced infertility treatments 1987: New Jersey judge rules surrogate mother Mary Beth Whitehead has no rights to child she bore by contract for another couple and tried to keep as her own. 1989: Divorcing couple in Tennessee fight over custody of the frozen embryos they created a year earlier. Ex-husband is eventually given right to destroy them. 1991: A 42-year-old South Dakota woman delivers her own twin grandchildren after becoming a surrogate for her daughter, who had produced embryos with her husband but had no uterus to develop them. 1995: University of California Irvine shuts down its fertility clinic because of a scandal involving transfer of patients' eggs to other women, without knowledge of either. 1996: A California woman uses in vitro fertilization to give birth at age 63. 1997: Septuplets are born healthy in Iowa from fertility drugs, and a child born from donor eggs and sperm and surrogacy in California is deemed to have no legal parents. 1998: Twins are born eight years apart as a result of a California woman giving birth with frozen embryo from the same 1989 batch that also produced a son. Chicago-area physicist announces he wants to develop human cloning as infertility treatment.
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