Essay about Fertility Treatments

In the Hendersons’ case, the couple was able to successfully undergo infertility treatment in the past and now have one child, yet failed to see gains from a similar treatment covered by Clarion the second time. Consequently, the Hendersons were advised to seek a more involved, costly procedure in relation to the previous treatment; however, there was little medical evidence presented regarding the success rate and medical necessity for the recommended treatment.

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.

Selective reduction is normally a two-day medical process in which one or more fetuses are aborted while leaving other fetuses to develop. It is a routine procedure for In Vitro Fertilization (IVP). This process is a medical procedure whereby an egg is fertilized outside the body. About 10 percent of IVF procedures result in five or more fetuses. 20 percent are quadruplets, 60 percent triplets, and about 10 to 15 percent are twins. Most physicians who provide IVF will counsel 85 percent of their patients to accept a selective reduction that will reduce the pregnancy to twins. There are many difficult ethical questions raised when the method of IVP is used and can be considered moral and immoral. These moral questions also depend on the

Another serious impact would be the possibility that the state would be mandating coverage for a treatment that offers minimal success of a live birth while at the same time putting the health of these women at risk. For example, women receiving fertility treatments are at risk for ovarian hyperstimulation, adnexal torsion (ovarian twisting), and increased risk of ovarian cancer (IVF-Infertility.com, 2006). In addition, these women are faced with a greater chance of multiple pregnancy, which carries with it its own set of risks to the mother as well as to potential offspring. Also, the risks associated with IVF may outweigh the live birth rate of only 1.9 % to women over the age of 45 who undergo ART (SART, 2003). Furthermore, while women are faced with health risks from infertility treatments, they

Infertility can be extremely challenging for couples to overcome. It can be not only physically draining, but emotionally and mentally as well. Infertility can be easily compared to a roller coaster, with emotions going up and down from hope and optimism plummeting down to frustration and even grief after many the couple has tried for a long period of time. While for me personally, I first think of women when I think of infertility, the men play a large role as well. They are also hoping for children and the biological reason for the infertility can be from either sex. Research has also shown that infertility can make physically difficult and cause anxiety in couples, which could led to increased difficulty in conceiving (Domar & Gordon,

The first of these issues is not as common today as it was when IVF first became widely used as a fertility treatment. In order to increase chances of conception, fertility clinics would implant multiple embryos, which increased the chance of having more than one fetus. Even without fertility problems, pregnancies of multiples are dangerous and chances of complications are increased (IVF 1). The implantation of multiple embryos is dangerous to mothers along with their babies and should be avoided. Modern guidelines and regulations state that only one embryo should be implanted; however some fertility clinics still implant multiples (IVF 1). One way to solve this problem would be to monitor these clinics more carefully and implement punishments for those who violate these

Unexplained infertility and recurrent spontaneous abortion (RSA) are current problems in healthcare. Infertility, which is the inability to produce a child over a one-year period while living with one’s spouse or significant other, is increasing and can be due to delayed childbearing, increased pelvic infections, and lower quality of sperm (Isaksson & Tiitinen, 2004). Many women turn to in vitro fertilization (IVF) to aid in pregnancy; however, with a 30% live birth rate, even women treated with IVF experience repeated inability to become pregnant (Li, J., Chen, Liu, Hu, & Li, 2013). This is defined as failed implantation following the transfer of an embryo (Li, J., Chen, Liu, Hu, & Li, 2013). Some women successfully become pregnant following IVF, but experience spontaneous abortion during the pregnancy. Treatments for unexplained infertility and RSA have surfaced, but questions arise as to whether or not the treatments truly affect pregnancy outcomes. Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) is a treatment that has been used to aid in successful pregnancy during IVF cycles (Virro, Winger, & Reed, 2012). Therefore, the question

In vitro fertilisation (IVF) marks a great step forward in medical technology, and Australia is a leader in the field. IVF is now a popular procedure for couples who are infertile or are having trouble conceiving. However, it raises ethical, moral and legal issues including the rights of an individual, property rights, the definition of human life, scientific experimentation versus a potential human life, religion, costs, and community, medical and taxpayer’s rights.

However, to assist successful pregnancy after a tubal reversal, couples may choose infertility assistance which may involve monitoring of new follicle production and induction of ovulation. At times, healthcare providers induce super-ovulation treatment to stimulate ovaries to produce better eggs or administer injection to force ovulation. When couples past the child-bearing years, they resort to in-vitro fertilization or intra-uterine fertilization. For men, healthcare providers conduct sperm preparation to separate the best quality and most motile sperm from the rest of the

“For years, reproductive specialists have been helping people become parents, even enabling them to choose the sex of their baby. One fertility doctor is taking things a step further, offering what some are calling ‘designer babies,’ as Early Show national correspondent Hattie Kauffman reports” (CBS News). Though designer babies are not yet feasible, choosing the gender of the baby is. This is possible through in-vitro fertilization, a process in which an egg is retrieved from a mother and sperm is donated by a father, then combined together in a lab to make a fertilized egg. During this process, it is possible for the parents to allow the egg to go through Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis. PGD is when embryologists remove a cell from the

There are a variety of issues with the process of artificially creating a fetus. The most popular procedure, IVF, is a process where sperm and egg are fertilized outside of the body and then injected back into the woman. At the beginning of the IVF process, there is precautionary medicine which needs to be taken to balance the hormone levels needed to conceive a child. “There are other health concerns as well. According to Our Bodies Ourselves, one quarter of women who inject fertility drugs - a necessary part of ART treatment - experience Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome which causes the ovaries to temporarily swell and become painful” (Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Blessing? Curse? Both?). Although this is a temporary syndrome, researchers are still unsure of the long-term health effects that can arise from ART processes. For example, the article Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Blessing? Curse? Both? represents how reproductive technologies are having favorable and inauspicious effects on women’s/fetus health, as well as explains that couples that use ICSI technology seem to put the fetus at a very high risk of developing autism and delayed developmental function in multiple cases. There is no guarantee in a fully healthy baby, so why risk using hazardous scientific

Reproductive technology has come a long way in the last twenty years and continues to make expansive advances. The question "where do babies come from" is becoming harder and harder to answer. The response used to sound something like "when a man and a woman love each other very much…" now with in vitro fertilization, fertility drugs, and sperm/egg donors as well as future advances the answer will take on a new twist "…they go to see a doctor and look through a catalog to pick what kind of baby they want."

Women’s reproductive rights are a global issue in today’s world. Women have to fight to have the right to regulate their own bodies and reproductive choices, although in some countries their voices are ignored. Abortion, sterilization, contraceptives, and family planning services all encompass this global issue of women’s reproductive rights.

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” With these words, Socrates stated the creed of reflective men and women and set the task for ethics: to seek, with the help of reason, a consistent and defensible approach to life and its moral dilemmas (Walters 22). Ethical inquiry is important to us when we are unsure of the direction in which we are heading. “New philosophy calls all in doubt,” wrote John Donne in the wake of the Copernican Revolution and of Charles I’s violent death, suggesting that new thoughts had challenged old practices (Donne). Today, new practices in the biomedical sciences are challenging old thoughts: “New medicine calls all in doubt” (Walters 22).

Infertility is widespread: about 7% of married couples in the United States are unable to conceive after 12 months of unprotected intercourse (Purdy, 2001, Bioethics of New Assisted Reproduction). In Vitro Fertilization is used when a women has irreparably damaged fallopian