Surrogacy

The statistics, some of which is highlighted by Dorothy Roberts in Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty, show the disparity between whites and blacks who seek fertility help from the new reproductive mechanisms. She concludes that it is very evident that the methods are used also exclusively by whites: there are a few black middle-class patients, but largely exceptions. The cost of the procedures is the first of many barriers that rule out numerous black families…

journey, but it is clear that he was constantly searching for a certain type of connection that he did not receive from his own parents. Even though his parents were not loving in the matter he needed and desired, he still found comfort and even surrogacy in Carine. She states that they learned to count on one another (Krakauer 107) and he states in a letter to her that she is was the only person that could possibly understand him (Krakauer 129). However, even Carine’s relationship could not…

Not every woman or couple is capable of naturally conceiving a child and giving birth. Infertility as well as rising prevalence of homosexual couples in the eyes of the fields of medicine has lead to the development of methods of assisted reproduction, one method being that of In Vitro Fertilization. In Vitro Fertilization, or IVF, has become a method of assisted reproduction highly recommended by physicians for infertile or homosexual couples. IVF, as it is related to the beginning of a life of…

In the United States the gay rights movement has undergone huge advances within the last century. These advances range from a variety of social topics including the legalization of gay marriage, allowing individuals to openly serve in the military, and even gain the basic right to lead and volunteer for a boy scout troop. In fact, most of these advances stem from legislation and social protest/movements within the past twenty years. With all of these monumental and speedy advances with gay…

Homosexuality is a constant topic in the media and is always being shunned with religious motives in both past and present. In recent news, politicians in some states are aiming for the criminalization of homosexuality while others are passing legislation for the recognition of same-sex marriages. Michael Levin presents a purely scientific and secular argument against homosexuality and homosexual marriages in his work “Why Homosexuality is Abnormal.” Michael Levin addresses the debate question:…

Many people say that gay parenting affects children negatively as well as being an unnatural parenting model and family model, therefore it will come to hurt the world. These opposing arguers strongly believe that children will become gay as an effect of having gay parents, or that the children will not be able to emotionally or mentally develop correctly, again as a result of having gay parents. However, what the people who do not agree with the idea are shutting out of their thoughts are the…

America’s culture has been centered around gay rights for the past twenty years. In February 2004 President George Bush called for Congress to pass a constitutional amendment stating that marriage is the union between one man and one woman, and that states be limited to defining legal arrangements other than marriage. Congress and the press debated this amendment for two years. In 2006 the marriage amendment failed to pass. Our most recent President Barack Obama is a proud opposer of gay…

Home conjures images of safety, security and sanctuary, a united front against the tyrannies of the outside world. In White is for Witching, The Bone People, and Her Sister’s Eye contend with domestic space as a site of conflict and antagonism, breaking down notions of familiarity, tolerance, and protection. This essay will argue that Oyeyemi, Cleven, and Hulme use domestic space to explore unspeakable acts that result from a colonial past remaining in a postcolonial present. This will be…

“Banning human cloning sends the regrettable message that politics and public pressure triumph over logic and the law” (Foley). Cloning has been a debatable topic in politics for over a decade. Supreme Courts, politicians, and legislators discuss the ethics of cloning and have mostly come to a conclusion that it is unethical. Since experimentation on the embryos is claimed to be murdering a fetus, cloning has not been allowed the potential it can fulfill. This shows that politics and public…

In the small country town of Vandalia a same sex couple were about to be married when they find out that they cannot be married because the town outlawed same sex marriage. They then decided to take matters into their own hands, they then decided to challenge the town of Vandalias’ ban on same-sex marriage. Three months later the town ends its ban on same sex marriage and the couple was finally able to be married, but their victory was short lived because a radical christian group then says…