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Date Posted: 13:03:45 05/08/00 Mon
Author: Islandgirl
Subject: Scully's fertility

This is kind of a repeat of something I posted in a reply to someone else's post on another board, but I wanted to make it a separate subject here.
A lot of people seem convinced that Scully "can't" have children, based on such eps as "Momento Mori" and "Emily". Actually, I think it's more like "Scully can't get pregnant the normal (fun) way." As far as has ever been mentioned on the show, Scully still has a womb and has the capability of carrying a pregnancy to term and giving birth to a healthy baby. She can't conceive in the usual way, because her ova are no longer inside her body. But we know where they are. Mulder keeps finding vials of them all over the place. (In both "MM" and "Emily".) True, we never saw him actually discuss his finds with Scully or give her the vials. But I'm just *ASSUMING* he wouldn't have merely tossed them in the trash and that Scully has them stored in some sort of medically appropriate environment.
So, what M&S would need to do, should they marry and wish to become parents, is a process called in vitro fertlization. It's actually fairly common. The man's sperm and the woman's ova are simply combined in an medical environment and implanted in the woman's womb. Scully would be the mother in every way possible. . .by providing half the child's genetic makeup, by giving birth and by caring for the child. Mulder would be the father in both the sense of providing half the child's genetic makeup and in caring for the child. There would be no need for egg donors, sperm donors, surrogate mothers or anything like that. The only problem would be that the actual conception would have to be clinical rather than, er, romantic.

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Replies:

Re: Scully's fertility (Contains spoilers!!) -- Islandgirl, 09:12:36 05/22/00 Mon
- Re: Scully's fertility (Contains spoilers!!) -- Melinda H, 04:28:48 05/16/01 Wed
- How would that work with the baby due this season? (NT) -- CW, 13:02:24 05/16/01 Wed