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“ I love kids and I always wanted to have them. They said they’d tried it in sheep and it worked.”
Stacie McBain was recently diagnosed with cancer at the age of 20. Doctors told her that the treatment she would undergo will ultimately leave her infertile. In light of this devastating news was an experimental procedure that had given Stacie the chance to become a mother. Her wish was no longer in the hands of God, but in the technology discovered by a doctor. Such experimental operations have occurred across the globe for over a decade, placing fertility procedures “in the eye of an ethical storm” (Meyer 94). The question remains are doctors playing God, or just giving infertile patients their wish to become parents?
The advances in science and medicine have led to the increase in ethical disputes. For many couples desperate to have children,
fertility procedures are a momentous opportunity, which come with a high price. According to the New England Journal of Medicine, “in 1994, the fertility industry cost the US Health-care system between $60,000 and $110,000 for each successful pregnancy.” Not only are these operations expensive, but also tantalizing and to so
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These legal and moral disputes surrounding the field of reproductive medicine will continue to grow. “We often get ahead of ourselves in technologically…And the ethics; we’re still wrestling with those kinds of questions” (Silverman). Donna Fasano of New York was one victim in an infertility treatment mix-up that impregnated her with two embryos; one with her egg and husband’s sperm, and one with an African American’s DNA. ” Many agree that the practice of reproductive technology is breaking the fidelity bond of marriage.
Is the fertility industry humane? We are submitting mothers to painful testing when the results are totally uncertain. This process begins with the female submitting to a two-week regimen of daily drug injections, tedious blood shots, and a number of ultrasound examinations.
With these experimental procedures comes the risk of error by surgeons. ” Who has the power to determine the answer? Is it the infertile couple who desires to be parents, or those who believe that life and death is in God’s hands?
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In-vitro fertilization, artificial insemination, and fertility drugs are all available prospects for the infertile couple, today. The question remains are doctors playing God, or just giving infertile patients their wish to become parents?
The advances in science and medicine have led to the increase in ethical disputes. The end result could be pure jubilation or total devastation. This process begins with the female submitting to a two-week regimen of daily drug injections, tedious blood shots, and a number of ultrasound examinations. Such experimental operations have occurred across the globe for over a decade, placing fertility procedures “in the eye of an ethical storm” (Meyer 94).
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