REL-3180 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Artificial Insemination, Sperm Bank, Primum Non Nocere
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Every religious community has strong opinions on this. Based on cosmology and what they think is natural . Women"s rights groups - saw technologies as liberation. Others: seen as oppressing women even more. Thought it was stopping them from being part of birth. Public policy agencies interested too - want to regulate birth, conception. Other names: artificial reproductive technologies, assisted reproductive technologies. Assisted - the medical field is too involved. Removal of egg from woman"s body and fertilized with sperm in a petri dish. End result: frozen for later or implanted back into woman. 2014: recorded 270,000 attempts of ivf and has a 35% success rate. Infertility and passing down genetic mutation to kids. Women can"t produce egg - needs an egg donor. Man can produce sperm - need a sperm donor. Cases where not mom and dad"s genetic material but the woman carries out the pregnancy. Need a donor - sperm or egg.
