Assisted reproductive technology

In Brave New World, scientists developed Bokanovsky’s Process—the splitting of one fertilized egg into between 8 and 96 embryos (Huxley). Today’s society is getting closer to full use of advanced reproductive practices such as Bokanovsky’s Process because of the use of assisted reproductive technology. Assisted reproductive technology (ART) is the technology used to achieve pregnancy in procedures such as artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization, and surrogacy, used primarily as a treatment for infertility. Society should be for assisted reproductive technology because it helps people who suffer from infertility to conceive, provides various forms of conception to fit the needs of many, and allows parents to have more control over the outcome of their pregnancy. Perhaps the greatest benefit of assisted reproductive technology is the ability to help people who suffer from infertility to conceive. In the United States, about 6% of married women aged 15-44 and 7.5% of men under the age of 45 are infertile (Center for Disease Control and Prevention). Furthermore, 6.9 million women and 4.7 million men under the age of 45 in the U.S. have used an infertility service at least once. The success can be seen in the numbers—in 2013, about 29% of ART cycles resulted in live births…

Introduction –Some people want to have a baby so badly that they consult fertility and reproductive health professionals who use the advancements of assisted reproductive technology to greaten their chances of having children through invetro fertilization amongst other methods. Is Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) a good or bad alternative when couples are out of options? What are the repercussions of using ART. Body Paragraph # 1 Topic Sentence – What is Infertility and Assisted…

Methods may be used assure natural conception, but should conception be manipulated through the use of Assisted Reproductive Technology, namely in vitro fertility treatments used on barren women. Methods may be used to assure avoiding conception, but should abortion be used to avoid an unwanted pregnancy. Abortion is taking a life where there should be life. Assisted Reproductive Technology creates life where there should be no life. If abortion is unnatural from a Christian perspective, then…

Reproductive technology is not a genetic shopping list; it is a way for couples to achieve the goal of having a baby. It also gives hope to the woman who though they would never be able to conceive a baby of their own. There are a vast number of advances happening in the reproductive world with medicine. These advances are to benefit the major of society in counting their generation to come. This process isn’t just about deciding what gender or eye color you want your child to have.…

How Conception and Abortion is in the U.S. Debates about abortion have always been a big issue in both the United States and the world. Some people argue that it is wrong to do an abortion because you take away a child that has the right to a life. However, the other side argues that it is important for women to have the right to have an abortion if they want to. In addition to the debate about abortion, there are also debates going on about conception. In some cases men are sterile and cannot…

IVF is the most effective form of assisted reproductive technology. In vitro fertilization is a complex series of procedures used to treat fertility or genetic problems and assist with the development of a child. Eggs are retrieved from ovaries and fertilized by sperm in a specialised laboratory, then the fertilized embryo are implanted in the uterus. IVF may involve eggs, sperm or embryos from an anonymous donor and in some cases, a woman who has an embryo implanted in her uterus might be used…

The issue of surrogacy and birth technologies with family law brings up a myriad of legal implications. Technology has and will continue to expand and evolve at an accelerated rate. Laws governing the use of such technologies are failing in some areas and the law fails to keep up with the rapid changes in society and technology. This is because the surrogate mother has exclusive custody rights; she cannot be forced to give up the child and also has a period of reconsideration of initial…

People travel to Thailand not just for enjoying their vacations, but also for realizing the dream of having a baby. India, Thailand and California in the United States are the most popular destinations for cross- border reproductive care or fertility tourism (Mckelvey, David, Shenfield, & Jauniaux, 2009). People usually go abroad for commercial surrogacy. No matter what their marital status or sexual orientation are (Armour, 2012), they could seek help from surrogacy agencies in those places.…

In Vitro Fertilization is commonly referred to as IVF which is an assisted reproductive technology (ART). The procedure is designed to prevail over infertility and hopefully produce a pregnancy. In IVF, eggs (oocytes) are fertilized with sperm by combining the two together in a lab dish with extracted mature eggs (oocytes) and semen samples in the laboratory (in-vitro). Then one or more fertilized eggs (embryos) are transferred into the uterine cavity. Education, stimulation, retrieval,…

How can we define Infertility? Infertility is defined as not being able to get pregnant after having unprotected sex for at least a year, or in some circumstances, six months. Infertility can also be defined as a woman that can get pregnant, but keeps having miscarriages or stillbirths. There is no exact cause for infertility, it may be due to a cause in either you or your partner. Or in some cases, a combination of both people. It is said that infertility affects approximately 10-15% of couples…