Ivf Pros And Cons

Is the rise of new birth technologies a revolutionary way to give infertile mothers and/or fathers a way to conceive, or does it simply a new form of slavery where children are commodities of their parents? The new technologies, including surrogacy and in vetro fertilisation (IVF) treatment, aim to provide a way to have biological children or conceive when it was previously difficult or impossible to naturally. However, these new advancements raise the question of where we draw the line between paying for the services, and paying for a human life.

The financial aspect of IVF treatments are reasonably un-debated, as the main issue with commercialisation of similar technologies falls with surrogacy. IVF is a ‘paid-for’ procedure, as the method itself and “scientific services” conducted at each respective clinic do come at a cost for hopeful parents (IVF Treatment Costs, n.d.). These costs are necessarily …show more content…
This document that they call a ‘surrogate agreement’, is fundamentally a contract stating the terms of the surrogacy, and where the ownership of the child falls after the birth. From the definition of slavery from the Criminal Code (2002), all of the elements are seen in this case, which is a standard commercial surrogate arrangement. From this one example, it is fairly simple to conclude that commercial surrogate situations quite easily fit those basic concepts in the slavery definition, and make children commodities of their