RS medical ethics fertility treatment and cloning
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- Created on: 25-05-16 18:35
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- Fertility treatment
- types
- IVF-in vitro fertilisation. embryo made in glass and then inserted into the mothers womb
- AI artificial insemnation- sperm and artifically inserted into the womb
- AIH- using the husbands sperm
- AID - using a donors sperm
- "thou shalt not commit adultery" Exodus 20 10 commandments
- brings a third person into a marriage could be seen as adultery
- "thou shalt not commit adultery" Exodus 20 10 commandments
- Church teachings
- Methodist church
- it is right to reasearch the causes of infertility and to try to find cures and use them like with any other medical condition
- creating spare embros is acceptable like CofE
- against using donor eggs or sperm
- Church of England
- don't believe in life at conception
- Lord Habgood(former Anglican Archbishop of York) "embroys are no different from the product of early miscarriages
- It is fine to create spare embryos which are later destroyed
- You can ccarry out reasearch on embryos up to 14 days old
- donations of sperm and eggs are acceptable
- children conceieved like this should have acces to the donor information
- don't believe in life at conception
- Roman Catholic Church
- Fertilitty for straight married couples only
- The Pope said "life is God's gift and we don not have the right to children"
- life begins at conception and this must be respected
- IVF and AIH are acceptable if there are no spare embroys created and no donor used
- all believe surrorgacy is wrong as it raises issues with parentage
- Methodist church
- Cloning
- cloning is a scientific process where cells are copied exactly
- each human life is a unique and special gift created by God it is wrong to try and create human life artificially
- some christians say "tissue cloning" is acceptable as only small parts are cloned eg skin cells
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