PHI 2396 Chapter 11: Bioethic Note 09 Chapter 11

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 2396
• Professor: Dean Lauer

Document Summary

Louise joy brown was born in vitro- (in glass) fertilization (ivf) Currently, there are 5000+ pregnancies from test tube babies in canada/year not seen as great achievement. Formally (cid:272)o(cid:374)sidered to (cid:271)e u(cid:374)(cid:374)atural, (cid:448)iolatio(cid:374) of god"s pla(cid:374), (cid:272)a(cid:374) pass do(cid:449)(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:374)ge(cid:374)ital disorders. -> violation & reliability concern --> effect on later development of a child, but found no harmful outcome from the results. Re(cid:373)o(cid:448)al of eggs, (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:271)i(cid:374)e the(cid:373) (cid:449)ith sper(cid:373) & retur(cid:374) the(cid:373) to the (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s (cid:271)od(cid:455) (or another surrogate women) Ivf attempts use non-donor 88% of time & 12% with donor. Embryo usually grows in a petri dish for 3-5 days before re-implantation **does not include procedure which handle only sperm (eg. iuf/i) or fertility medications. Traditional surrogacy: 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: doing exactly the same like traditional surrogacy but doing it for the sake of getting paid.