PHI 2396 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Louise Brown, Assisted Reproductive Technology, Petri Dish
4 Mar 2017
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Louise joy brown: product of in vitro latin for in glass fertilization (ivf, currently has a child of her own naturally conceived. Account for 5000 canadian pregnancies (cma) today: new considered relatively unremarkable, formerly considered with suspicion. Involves an agreement in which a woman becomes pregnant for the purpose of gestating and giving birth to a child for others to raise. Commercial surrogacy (no legal in canada: as above but the agreement is aid, surrogacies can lead to unconventional parents relationships. A surrogate mother can use donor eggs with donor sperm (or donor embryo) for the child rearing parents. In this case the born child could be thought of as having five different parents (2 donors, 2 child rearers + surrogate mother) Ethical debates: group 1 = conservative, oppose all arts. Social coercion for the infertile to have kids: group 2 = liberal, embraces arts. Empowers woman in the control of their bodies.
