Eggs For Sale Garcia Summary

Mr. Szafranski deposited his sperm to be frozen and used as a back-up on the date Ms. Dunston’s eggs were eventually retrieved. In addition, they both signed an informed consent document that not only outlined the risks involving in vitro fertilization, but stated that there could be

In the article “Selecting the Perfect Baby: The Ethics of “Embryo Design,” is an article about a married couple, name Larry and June Shannon. They have a daughter, four years old, name Sally, who is diagnosed with Fanconi Anemia. Therefore, the Shannons are getting help from a research team, to find the perfect bone marrow transplant for Sally. The Shannon couple is also interested in having another child and they are aware of the risks and odds of success. However, a PGD process has to be performed and the couple must undergo an IVF procedure more than once, before the implantation is successful, to be able to produce a healthy full-term baby.

Making big choices in life can be difficult, especially if that big choice is having children. There are many men and women who are infertile that still want to have children. Most decide to adopt other children who do not have families or their families do not want them. But when adoption is not an option, there is now a way where those men and women can have their own children together through fertility treatments. Fertility treatments could be a good thing:being able to freeze egg and sperm, they can help infertile couples, and avoiding transmitted diseases would be easier.

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The first child to ever be from using test tube techniques happened in the late 1970’s. Although many have applauded this new type of technology, there is an ethical issue on whether or not embryos should be created in test-tube knowing that fact that many are not implanted and have human development. “Octo-Mom” is a classic case that may have changed many people’s perception when it comes to in-vitro fertilization. Many felt that it was ethically wrong for her doctor to conduct that type of procedure to a woman who will not have the ability to provide adequate care for the well-being of her children who may have health issues.

Spare embryos shouldn’t be used in views of some people. If spare embryos are not supposed to be used for research or anything else, they should just be kept as “spare.” People view the embryos as being extra or unwanted by the parents. People believe these embryos could go to adoption

Anonymous sperm and egg donation is a serious topic. Some people think they should remain anonymous and some do not. A few reasons for becoming known donors are legal rights, medical reasons, and psychological problems. The parents and donor kids should know where the sperm or egg came from because it might affect their futures. Medical risks are a huge deal that everyone needs to be aware of, but especially those who are not sure where they came from. Donor children who do not know who their donor is or are looking for their biological parent, may grow up to have problems psychologically. Children have the right to know their biological background.

An issue that has caused great legal debate is the freezing of eggs and embryos. Freezing allows savings eggs or embryos for later implantation; not all are used. However, frozen embryos and eggs generally have a lower success rate. The question arises of what happens to them if the couple decides to divorce, or one or both of them dies? These situations have been decided through court determinations. In 1987, the status of frozen embryos was brought before the Victorian courts with the case of Mr and Mrs Rios, who had died in a plane crash. The embryos from Mr and Mrs Rios had been frozen in 1981. There were many ethical and moral concerns regarding this case. Should the embryos remain frozen indefinitely, be donated, or kept for research? The Infertility (Medical Procedures) Act

“Many people believe that it is unethical to pay women who donate eggs for stem cells research, while others consider it unethical not to pay them.” (Chapter Preface)

Embryo adoption also known as embryo donation is a one of a kind thing. Couples who are infertile typically chose in vitro fertilization (IVF), intrauterine insemination (IUI), adoption, or a less common method of embryo adoption. Couple who choose the first, IVF, go through a process of obtaining eggs and sperm, allowing the embryo(s) to form outside of the body, and then having the embryo implanted into the mother’s uterus. Typically, multiple embryos are developed and the parents either choose to keep them for later use or when they are finished, sometimes forget about the embryos and in time, they die. Unfortunately, many couples are not informed about donating their frozen and leftover embryos to clinics, where other infertile couples can adopt them. The good news is, it is becoming more popular and people are becoming more educated. Embryo adoptions is such a great thing and more couples should really consider it.

In "Eggs for Sale", M.A. Garcia writes that all women should research all stages and effects of the egg process, so women should consider all aspects of egg donation. First, most importantly, the process before egg donation is more about whether the women is doing the process for all the right reasons. Garcia stated, "I hadn't hung the phone up and I was already thinking of things to do with the money I was getting". In the quote Garcia was only focused on the materialistic perspective; furthermore, women should go beyond one motive to gain knowledge on the process. Once a woman is in this stage, she could consider what this donation process could lead to in her life, do she care where her eggs goo, as well as will she be helping another family.

In M. A. Garcia’s article “Eggs for Sale”, she was telling her story of donating her eggs to a couple who was infertile. Towards the beginning of the text she stated it herself, she was doing the procedure for the extra cash. Furthermore, throughout her story she learned that there is more to value in life and also being able to create a new life for a couple who would love to start their own family. There are always going to be people who think that donating your eggs or buying them from a total stranger is odd. Personally, when it comes to donating eggs to an infertile couple I believe it is a great opportunity in numerous ways. If there is a woman that is not doing anything with her eggs nor has any plans any time soon, why not help a couple

They are created by in vitro fertilization, meaning that they have been fertilized outside of the human body. So when many of the embryos that have been created that way do not end up being implanted; it leaves many spare embryos, which either are frozen and preserved, or donated for the sake of science, depending on the consent of the client. In this manner, if the donor agrees to donate the embryo, doesn't it, in accord with all the potential benefits associated with the research, provide enough reason to disregard the moral issues mentioned previously? A frozen embryo might remain in a fertility clinic until its viability expires, and is discarded; isn't it a better idea, then, to instead donate an embryo for research that might save millions of lives in the future? Furthermore, research on embryonic stem cells might lead to technologies that allow for scientists to obtain more of those cells by using less destructive methods. Currently, scientists are investigating several possible methods. These include extracting embryonic stem cells from organismically dead embryos, bioengineering embryo-like artifacts, expanding the potency of adult stem cells, and performing non-harmful biopsy to extract stem cells from living embryos. Judging the benefits of stem cell research is a much more clear-cut path. Just the donation of several hundred embryos and sufficient funding from governments or private enterprises have a great chance of leading to a future in which almost any disease would be curable. Just in 2008, Spanish doctors, in collaboration with British scientists, had managed to grow an entire section of a patient's, Claudia Castillo's, trachea from her own stem cells. In November, a successful operation in Barcelona managed to replace Claudia's damaged trachea with the healthy, artificially grown one. She is now able to resume her usual active life, and stands as

Many opponents of sperm donation also believe that donation should not be allowed to remain anonymous, citing that this causes negative effects on the resulting children in the long run (Christian Science Monitor); however I believe this should be entirely the donor’s choice. Many countries have already passed laws no longer allowing anonymous donation. According to the article “In Britain, a decline in sperm donors; Anonymous no longer, most say they want to help infertile couples, not just earn extra cash" by the Christian Science Monitor, this ban on anonymous sperm donation has vastly affected the number of donors, resulting in a shortage of sperm available for use. This action does not seem to be the most logical answer as it leaves many people wanting children without means by which they can do so. The effects on the donor conceived children could just as easily be reduced by other methods such as the creation of a national registry that includes more accessible data about their donor, such as medical issues the donor themselves may have and a more detailed family history of medical predispositions; something that many children including Kathleen LaBounty, a young woman with a

IVF raises many of these difficult moral issues. If the above conceptions about the nature of ethics were correct, however, discussion of these issues would either be futile (because morality is a matter of personal choice or opinion) or superfluous (because morality is what a divine or secular authority says it is) (Walters 23). In this paper, I want to suggest that it is not only possible, but also necessary to inquire into the ethics of such practices as IVF because the fact that we can do something does not mean that we ought to do it.