# what is this procedure called
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-procedure-called/120228
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [July 22, 2002, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-procedure-called/120228 "2002-07-22T16:03:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2002, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-procedure-called/120228/1 "2002-07-22T16:03:57Z")
In the procedure, primarily used by lesbian couples, they remove the egg of woman 1, let’s called her Stephanie, and using the sperm, remove its DNA, and inject it w the DNA of woman 2, Amanda. They then implant the egg, if it takes, the child will be a totally genetic descendant of the women. (by laws of biology, also a guarenteed daughter.)
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### Author:  [@MachV](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MachV)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2002, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-procedure-called/120228/2 "2002-07-22T16:21:47Z")
Um, I don’t know, er…cloning?
Eggs have sperm? Learn something new everyday…
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### Author:  [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2002, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-procedure-called/120228/3 "2002-07-22T17:29:21Z")
Maybe you’re thinking of ICSI (intracytoplasmic sperm injection), where an embryologist directly implants a sperm into an egg.
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### Author:  [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2002, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-procedure-called/120228/4 "2002-07-22T18:57:03Z")
If the sperm has been fiddled with as alluded to in OP, then that’s my answer.
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### Author:  [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2002, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-procedure-called/120228/5 "2002-07-22T20:37:01Z")
I think MachV’s answer is a little closer, then, although I doubt it’s a common technique amongst lesbians unless they have an ultra-secret lesbian cloning lab that you weren’t supposed to tell us about.
ICSI is just straightforward putting the sperm into the egg. No DNA manipulation.