Fertility

The thought of killing to most people is bone chilling and makes the hairs on the back of the neck stand up. Abortion is the intentional termination of a pregnancy before maturity. This is the removal of an embryo or fetus from the womb before maturity. Even though abortion has been legalized in many states, the question as to whether abortion is morally permissible or not permissible is still in debate. Abortion is a controversial topic, and like any other touchy subjects, it faces a great…

Approximately twenty percent of couples worldwide experience fertility problems (Infertility in women, 2014), but with IVF available, those couples have the opportunity to become parents. Professor Robert Edwards and gynaecologist Dr Patrick Steptoe started working alongside each other in 1968, with the intention of finding a remedy to assist couples experiencing fertility problems. This essay will describe IVF, and the events leading up to its revelation, furthermore the impact it made at the…

Caribbean sociologists do believe in fertility control as an important mechanism in the economic development and social development of the countries within the Caribbean. The less people there are within a country the less money will be needed to spend on the development of that country therefore the objective of greater development of that country will be more quickly and easily attained. Within the Modernization theory it is believed that the rapid population growth of a country can be a great…

Background Teen pregnancy is by definition “age 13 to 19, which is understood to occur in a girl who hasn’t completed her core education—secondary school—has few or no marketable skills, is financially dependent upon her parents and/or continues to live at home and is mentally immature”(Segen 's Medical Dictionary). Teen pregnancy is not a new phenomenon, but has only become a problem when the average age of pregnancy went up. For females ages 15 (2011) make up 23 out of every 1000 births…

In the video, Dr. Scott Rae is making the comparison of using medical technology in the assist of procreation and using medical technology with the everyday usage of human’s bodily organs. He used the example of having medical technology assist people with kidney failure or with lung failure. The comparison is made when there is assistance with medical technology and procreation. To be honest, I have never thought of it that way. If there is a blockage in the fallopian tube, then why can’t…

In 2012, the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention reported there were 699,202 legal induced abortions completed in the United States from 49 out of 52 areas (Reproductive). These results are incomplete per the authors on the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report site as they are information voluntarily reported by health centers (Creanga, Jamison, & Pazol, 2015). So, one can only imagine how many induced abortions were completed? However, the pro-choice side views that an unborn baby is not…

I really enjoyed his answer about the validity of In-Vitro Fertilization. In class, he said that IVF is something that disengages a male and a female from the sexual act of bring a child into the world, as donor eggs and sperm are joined in a petri dish to create human embryos. This process, besides the fact that the millions of embryos have been destroyed to perfect this process, is not natural. Dr. Moore believes that IVF allows anyone to have children, regardless of their sex, and destroys…

So if a foetus has the right to live and a pregnant woman has the right to bodily autonomy, the issue then becomes whose rights are deemed more important, or rather, whose rights prevail in terms of abortion? Judith Thompson’s unconscious violinist analogy argues that even if the foetus has the right to live, it does not have the right to use someone else’s body. You wake up one day and find yourself attached to someone else’s body, and discover that you were kidnapped and this person’s…

In today's society there is constant debate on Abortion. The practice of deliberately ending a pregnancy is perhaps the most contentious issue in contemporary public culture, certainly in the US. Politically, the debate has become polarised between those who support a woman’s right to choose and those who against the fact of killing an unborn child. Abortion is one of today’s most contested moral issues, with many anti-abortionists taking an absolutist stand on the basis of the sanctity of…

In Dwarfism: When Is a Fetus Normal, a couple who are both achondroplastic dwarfs are having their fetus tested for this disorder in order to decide whether to abort the fetus or not. The twist with the decision is they have decided they will abort the fetus if it has two copies of the gene for achondroplastic dwarfism or none at all. The couple essentially wants a child just like they are, and they do not want to raise a child that is different from them. Before getting into ethical…