Infertility And In Vitro Fertilization

A couple of weeks ago, Professor Baasten asked the class, “Do you want to have a child?” and followed up with, “Why?” The lecture went on, explaining the different reasons why people want to have children despite it being an irrational act, and he even allowed us to explain our own take as to why we wanted to have children. However, we then talked about when people are physically unable to have children – infertility. Many talk about how wonderful children are, yet some are not able to experience that feeling because they are not able to physically become pregnant with a child. The psychology of infertility then unravels through the couple; both partner may start to have problems internally and externally. Any partner who is infertile can …show more content…
The Genetics and IVF Insitute defines in vitro fertilization as fertilization that happens outside the body. When it happens in the body, it is called in vivo (Genetics & IVF Institute). In vitro fertilization is a costly procedure, ranging from $10,000 to $12,000 per attempt, and that does not guarantee 100% success rate. There are also chances for abandoned eggs, where eggs are just stored and not used, and for the male perspective, sperm is used again and again. As we discussed earlier in the paper, multiple use of the same sperm is a problem in the Catholic Church, and it has important implications for the relationship of the family to the donor. There can be new kinds of families, where the donor is technically the father of different children in different families, and even at that, the role of the donor is an important aspect to consider because biologically, the donor is the child’s real father, and that is a piece of information that, I think, the child deserves to know. In vivo is similar in a sense that the process consists of fertilizing the egg, but it occurs inside the body. It has the same rate of success has in vitro, but it still falls under an unnatural process under the Catholic