As The Right To A Child

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IVF (in vitro fertilisation)

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The first test tube baby- Louise Brown, born in the UK in 1978.

Became more important in ethics as reproductive techniques have developed.

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A child is a gift

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Religious belief that a baby is a gift from God, makes God the arbiter of whether a person can have a baby or not.

As a development of that, it is argued that perhaps God does not intend some people to become parents.

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A child is a gift argument

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A more secular approach would be a person arguing that infertility is natures way of keeping the human population in line.

Others point out that fertility is a recent innovation, therefore how can parenthood by a human right if technology never existed in the past

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A child is a right

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Assisting a infertile couple to have a baby is simply correcting a malfunction.

If advances in medicine result from the application of human reason, then they are a God given method of helping others.!

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Article 16 of the universal declaration of human rights says;

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Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family.

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IVF

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Who should IVF be available to?

UK have a health check criteria that a women has to fit in order to have a IVF treatment, also the NHS give a 3 free cycles of IVF treatment to people who meet the criteria.

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Ethical issues surrounding IVF

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Destruction of spare embryos.

Artificially making a baby in the laboratory.

Different implications of using sperm from the husband, the lover or an unknown donor.

Using an unknown donor constitutes adultery.

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Embryo and Sanctity of life

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If an embryo is considered a person, it goes against the sanctity of life.

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IVF and natural law

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IVF is totally unacceptable to followers of natural law because it intrudes into the natural process of conception

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Natural law & motive

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As natural law is concerned with the motive and not the outcome of an action, there is an acceptance of the doctrine of double effect.

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Surrogacy

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Paying someone to carry your child

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The right to a child issues

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Whether a child is a gift or a right

Obtain Sperm samples through masturbation

Surrogacy

Moral status of a foetus

IVF

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IVF

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IVF has the intention of overcoming the common problem of infertility, seen as a practical solution to a medical problem