Reproductive Technology revision cards

• Seman ejected from man and inserted into the womans womb
• Christian theologian writers believed that abortion is on par with it as the seman is a 'person'
• some believe that the womb is only an incubator
• Situation ehtics believe that it takes place within marriage and the purpose is good, it's acceptable when no other option available

• Medically supervised, screened for defects
• Man only able to donate 10times
• Social father may feel inadept
• Legal until 1987 child was illegitimate, can cause problems for child in future for example hereditry illnesses
• Some Believe sperm donation 'mechanical adultery', introducing someone else into a marital relationship
• ownership and autonomy

Positives

• Overcome Childless ness
• Most loving outcome

Negotives

• Can cause stress as one parent could be related whilst other is not
• Could be classed as playing God
• Designer babies
• Do we have the right to a child or is it a gift from God?

• Ovum removed from woman's ovaries- mixed with husbands sperm in tetre dish and if fertilization occurs- its played in the womb
• first IVF took place in Britian, the baby produced was called Louise Brown
• Useful if fallopian tuves are destroyed or damaged
• Creates spare embroys, what do we do with them? Reuse, freeze, destroy or medical research?
• 7000 babies in UK have been born using IVF

Positives

• Older women have chance to children, their emotional stable and experienced
• Children able to care for parents
• Bible-old age= blessing
• Increase scientific knowledge on fertility (Kant- 'means to an end', therefore wrong)

Negotives

• Could cause congential defects which only surface when the child is older
• parents are old, can cause child stress looking after them
• defies nature and natural law
• meddling in matters that belong to God
• Slippery slope-first step to cloning

• cannot be kept alive for more than 14days, otherwise=criminal offence
• no embryo subject to research or be transfere to a woman
• no male or female can donate more than 10times
• surrogacy not an offence, agencies or professional, or money are.

• woman carries a foetus and bears a child on behalf of another person + agree to surrender the child to this person at birth or shortly after
• may be anonymous or friend
• surrogacy act 1985= an offence to arrange or agree to take part in surrogacy for money not an offence to be a surrogate if no money changes hands
• illegal to advertise
• child belongs to surrogate, until handed over
• has right not to hand over child in the end if wises
• what if child is disabled and neither party what it?

• cloned tissue can be used for transplants but is not permitted for a full human
• seen as unethical, offence to human dignity
• create psychological problems for the cloned child-identity? Personhood?
• Playing God