Since the birth in 1978 of Louise Brown, the world's first test-tube baby, new reproductive technologies to overcome infertility have spread around the globe, reaching countries far from the technology-producing nations of the West. Perhaps nowhere is this globalization process more evident than in the Muslim world, where a private in vitro fertilization (IVF) industry is flourishing. Indeed, Egypt alone (population 70 million) hosts 60 IVF clinics, while the tiny country of Lebanon (population …