SOCI 365 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Artificial Insemination, In Vitro Fertilisation, Petri Dish
5 May 2018
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Lecture 24 – March 20th
Reproductive Technologies/Assisted Reproduction
• Author date in text citation—ASA or be consistent
o Soci concept
o Graphos session next Tuesday, bring an external source (article) with you
o That will be your reading for Tuesday
• New reproductive technologies
o Rise in new reproductive technologies over the last several decades spurred
in part by
▪ Womens health movement
▪ Expansion of medical knowelge and tech
▪ Medicalization of reproduction
• Fertility
o Birth control
o Continuum of fertility and infertilities
o Ties in with WHM in 60s
o Freeing women from unwanted motherhood
o Decoupling sex from reproduction
o Double standard
▪ Testing of early pill
• Poor women of color (readings)
▪ Coercive use of long-lasting hormonal contraceptive
o Choosing motherhood
• Assisted reproductive technologies
o Both high and low tech options
o Sperm donation
▪ High tech sperm has increased medicalization
▪ Legal and health considerations have propelled increasing use of
sperm banks (instead of informal)
o Intrauterine insemination (IUI)
▪ Taking sperm that has been processed in some way (just the sperm
not the other stuff), and placed directly into a woman’s uterus
▪ Rates of success lower than for IVF
▪ Puts women and baby at higher risk
▪ Cant control number of embryos like you can with IVF
o In vitro fertilization (IVF)
▪ Increasingly common and has allowed women to have children later
in life
▪ Not always effective although often portrayed that way
▪ Harvest eggs from woman, conception happens in petri dish
▪ Moral dilemmas—choose to terminate one or more fetuses and this
primarily is focused on women
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