Medical Ethics- Fertility treatment
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- Created on: 20-05-15 22:00
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- Fertility treatment
- Christian Attitudes
- Other Christian views.
- Often accepted, as it brings about a much wanted new child.
- It's acceptable as long as the child is loved.
- Roman Catholics
- It is completely wrong. It is wrong to interfere with nature
- It is playing God. God creates life and should be involved in the conception of the child. It completely removes him from the situation.
- Only should be conceived through the natural process of sex between husband and wife. The unative aspect of sex should not be removed from the procreative element.
- Issues
- What happens to the spare embryos which are discarded, especially if life begins at conception.
- Some disagree with same sex couples receiving the treatment
- What about the embryos used in research?
- Is using donor sperm/eggs classified as adultery?
- Who is the biological parents is surrogacy or AID is used?
- Other Christian views.
- Other attitudes
- Yes it is acceptable, Jesus was a healer, and fertility treatment aims to reduce suffering.
- No, Natural law- does the embryo has human rights?
- Types
- IVF- Womans egg and mans sperm and inseminated outside the womb and viable embyros and then implanted into the womb.
- It removes god from creating life in the womb.
- Life begins at conception?
- AIH- Things like medicines or treatments to increase fertility- not natural.
- It is not a natural process.
- AID- Donated sperm or eggs.
- Who's the real Mother or Father
- Is it classified as adultery?
- Surrogacy- If a woman is unable to carry a baby, the zygote will be implanted into another womb for her to give birth to.
- Who's the real mother?
- The woman could claim it was her child if she had difficulty giving it away.
- IVF- Womans egg and mans sperm and inseminated outside the womb and viable embyros and then implanted into the womb.
- Laws
- Surrogacy which is paid is ILLEGAL.
- Fertility treatment is legal, but is very strict surrounding how anonymous the donors are/
- Christian Attitudes
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