Sexual reproduction

Abortion is ending a pregnancy before the embryo or fetus can survive outside of the uterus. This is stating that the child cannot withstand life in our world, so how is an abortion considered murder? I think it’s fascinating that people are freaking out about people terminating their pregnancies, but the life forms inside of them still can’t actually live. The child is entirely depending on the mother to live. For the first trimester miscarriage risk is at its highest. This is also the most…

The issue of sex-based abortion is a worldwide issue that most countries are dealing with, and have been dealing with for years. It has been a trend to birth a boy so the family name can carry on or so royal families have an heir to their throne. But some cultures are very strict on the issue and make mothers abort their child if it is not the desired sex. Could this abortion of children go hand-in-hand with gender selection and in vitro fertilization to eliminate the inheritance of disease…

Abortion is one of the most controversial topics in the country today. Many people are blinded by the fact that abortion is murder, and they do not see the effects that abortion may cause. So, what is abortion? Abortion is the cessation of a developing infant in a mother’s body. Fertilization normally takes place only one day after intercourse; this means that as soon as the egg travels into the mother, life is formed. Just within four weeks, the baby has already developed a heartbeat, and a…

I attended the science speaker series on February 27th, when Laurie Mackenzie spoke on the current scientific developments and obstacles relating to the ethics of human reproduction and IVF. She gave a brief overview of how eggs are fertilized, detailing that the lifespan of an egg after ovulation is 12-14 hours, whereas sperm can live for up to 7 days, meaning that the perfect sperm must reach the egg that wants it quite quickly, or else the egg will wither and die, resulting in nothing other…

In the article “Eggs for sale” by M. A. Garcia, the author goes into detail about her journey on aspirating her eggs. She reveals that in the beginning her main focus was on the financial compensation she would receive. Garcia later learned that she would be giving a couple something no one else could. She gave them the gift of life, she allowed them to become parents. Egg donation is an exceedingly controversial topic, many believe that it is unethical to remove the eggs of one female and…

One topic, different approach Writing is a way of communication. People read for various reasons ranging from fun to long-term research. Knowing your target audience and choosing the right language, words, and format for your audience is very crucial to get the desirable outcome out of the audience. This essay will analyze and compare the Sindya N. Bhando's article “Bird Eggs Are Fertilized by More Than One Sperm” published in New York Times, and a scientific jargon “Polyspermy in birds: sperm…

Sexual selection has long been recognized as a powerful evolutionary process having important consequences on reproductive behaviour, morphology, and fitness (Birkhead and Pizzari, 2002). Sexual selection research has often focused on pre-copulatory mate choice; however, the discovery of female promiscuity and polyandry has lead to the realization that mate choice continues to operate after copulation (Birkhead and Pizzari, 2002). For males, it is obvious that promiscuity has evolved to increase…

What is a shapeshifter? Shapeshifters are human like creatures that learn how to change their form to whatever or whoever they want. Some common versions of these creatures include, but are not limited to, vampires, werewolves, skinwalkers, and wendigos. Shapeshifters are seen commonly through mythology. Shapeshifters are myths, which means that there are multiple versions of them. One version is from the tv series Supernatural. In the show Supernatural the shapeshifters can become anyone they…

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…

Since the beginning of time women have struggled with infertility problems. The old theory of getting married and having a family are becoming harder to establish. A lot of women today are having a lot of issues, either from waiting too late to start a family or fertility problems. A woman’s ability to get pregnant start to decline in her mid-twenties and it gets more and more harder with time There are billions of women, even couples that are suffering from the ability to reproduce on their own…