The seemingly irreversible demographic decline of the Parsis may be stalled by surrogacy, and that too, without offending orthodox sensibilities.
According to Communicative and Integrative Biology, an expert US based publication, 300 to 400 million sperms are released in a single ejaculation. Of course, only a fraction of these sperms are healthy, fast-moving, capable of fertilizing an egg and causing a pregnancy. In nature’s greatest lottery, out of every 5,000 sperms in the utero-tubal junction, only 1,000 reach the fallopian tubes and out of these 1,000 only 200 get near an egg; and then one lucky sperm manages to fertilize it.
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