SOC 2103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Human Cloning, Ontario Health Insurance Plan, Sex Selection

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2103
• Professor: kathleenmoss

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Commercialization of parenthood: not allowed to pay surrogate to carry your child, canadian government will pay for your first round of ivf treatment. Can the government step in and say what age you can and (cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:859)t ha(cid:448)e a (cid:272)hild: there will be an age limit for how old you can be for the government to pay for your ivf. Reproductive technologies can cause women to have multiple babies, low birth weight, early labour. How to handle women with advanced maternal age (40-50s) Clie(cid:374)ts (cid:449)ho (cid:373)ight (cid:271)e ad(cid:448)a(cid:374)(cid:272)ed age, disa(cid:271)led, seriously ill, spouses (cid:449)ho do(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:449)a(cid:374)t a child, borderline intelligent or illiterate. Fertility specialists are divided on the issue of the rights of future parents and the rights of the unborn child. People have children every day and they are not screened, people who have mental disorders, sociopaths, bipolar disorders and personality disorders, abusive, etc and we are just trying to help good people have children.