PHI 2398 Lecture 15: PHI2398 Lecture March 1 2017
3 Mar 2017
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Test-tube babies: louise joy brown 1978 first ivf in glass. Ivf = > 5,000 canadian pregnancies annually. Today we do not consider ivf as remarkable; former view of suspicion baby (naturally (unnatural, violated god"s plan, can lab contamination pass on congenital disorders?) Assisted reproductive tech (art) -- egg removal procedure, combine with sperm, return to woman"s body (or another woman) Embryo grows 3-5 days in petri dish before reimplantation. Surrogacy -- woman becomes pregnant to gestate and birth a child for others to raise (commercial surrogacy is paid; illegal in can [can reimburse], less common) Unconventional parent relationships may arise (potentially multiple biological and rearing parents) = threat to religious patriarchy and nuclear family. Contrary, procedures that handle only sperm or fertility meds (i. e. iuf/iui) Group 1 -- conservatives who oppose all arts because they fear commodification of human life, women seen as berthing vessels (kantian.
