Essay on In-Vitro-Fertilization: Should it be Used?

* Is married to an army husband and had 3 kids with him, but he lost her only daughter when she was just a 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.

In the following slide Mckinnely continues the professional and mature design from previous slides and includes a graph titled “Pathway of Indirect of Military Risk and Resilience Factors on Child Outcome”(Mckinnely). The graph displays the risk and resiliency factors that play into a parent and child relationship and their overall impacts on their children. Mckinnely’s use of the graph makes his argument more understandable for his audience by identifying the factors that play contribute to the child’s life.

disaster has taken your precious son not only from the military but also from his dearest

They were trying to have a family. There were some infertility issues. They tried IVF twice and failed. They were looking into other options. Unfortunately, she had extra martial affairs during the times he was deployed. Two children were product of these affairs. He has no biological children of his own. This was Mr.

This woman could be a veteran’s widow carrying their kids to honor their fallen father and to

Cozza, C. S., & Lerner, R. M. (2013). Military Children and Families: Introducing the Issue. The Future of Children, 23(2), 3-11. doi:10.1353/foc.2013.0016

When considering adopting a child that has experienced traumatic events such as the one in Iraq, the adopting parent should really reflect on if they are able to provide the child with everything they need in order to heal from these events. "When a child is exposed to a threat the brain will activate a set of adaptive responses, either by becoming hyper-aroused or dissociative responses" (Perry, 2004). Young male are more often to become hyper-aroused after experiencing a traumatic event, and they tend to display resistant or aggressive behavior, anxiety, and/or increased heart rates

When IVF first became popular Van Blerkom says, “ My First Reaction was, ‘You’ve got to be kidding’” (qtd. in Cheng). Scientists are now going to try to create a chapter method of IVF so many more people would be able to enjoy a test tube baby that would not cost the $60,000 incubator cost ( Cheng). In her article titled, Shoebox Lab + $265= one test-tube baby, Maria Cheg writes that this new method would help over half the people who need infertility help (Cheng). While Cheng believes more IVF would be beneficial to he world (Cheg), Baird says that we will

According to the study findings by Hammoud (2009), in vitro fertilization was not used to its maximum potential generally in areas that had low availability, less urbanization in the state, and low level of education. The low level of availability to patients directly correlated with the absence of mandated in vitro fertilization coverage by insurance companies as well as lower median income. It would not be feasible for IVF centers to reside in areas where the median income is low and where insurance does not cover the procedure because it can become costly which can be a deterrent or barrier.

That isn’t the usual case with the women getting IVF. Most women get this treatment because they can’t have a child without it. For example, Bernita Malloy, a federal prosecutor in Atlanta would not have been able to have a child without 25 eggs and three in-vitro cycles. She spent about $45,000 on only three cycles. Imagine if we had limited her to only two eggs per cycle. It would have taken her up to 12 cycles and about $180,000 to have one child. And still, even with this treatment some women never successfully have a

On June 25th 1978 Louis Brown, the first “test tube baby” was born. She weighed 5 pounds, 12 ounces .Her parents, Lesley and John Brown, had been trying to conceive for nine years. They faced complications of blocked Fallopian tubes and were willing to try the experimental and risky procedure. (“PBS”) the process of in vitro includes harvesting eggs and sperm, fertilizing the egg and then placing the freshly fertilized egg into the mother. Today, despite the high cost, in vitro fertilization has become the most popular option for women having trouble conceiving. In 2013, IVF resulted in over 50,000 births. (cdc.gov)

There are generally five main groups of patients that constitute the demand for such technology. These include those screening for inherited genetic disorders, carriers of chromosomal translocations, female patients undergoing IVF who are approximately 38 years or older, IVF patients who have had repeated failure – usually three or more failed attempts,

IVF allows patients who have entered a postmenopausal age to still have children. Without the use of IVF would be impossible to have children after the postmenopausal age (Laura, 2010). Pregnancy at an old age as expected has higher risks involved such as complications during pregnancy, death, and birth defects. Many scientist argue on the age barriers to stop IVF from being an option. The article from Management in Health talks about an elderly patients carrying and death story and it says, " Once considered the oldest mother in the world conceived using IVF. Maria del Carmen Bousadreas is dead which brings issues. She gave birth to twins at sixty-six years old then died three years late leaving the twin to the care of relatives (Laura, 2010). The ethical situation here is whether it is ethical to allow an elderly patient to conceive. I have read article before where a mother carried a child through IVF because her daughter was not able to carry one herself. In this case the child had a younger set of parents and not an elderly parent. In the case of Bousadreas it could be stated as unethical to allow a patient to chose IVF if her age can possibly not allow her to care for the children till they are adults or can care for themselves. Currently there is not age restriction against using IVF at an older

IVF has many benefits for couples who have tried to conceive a child of their own and have little or no success. IVF takes nature into the laboratory and gives a helping hand with the fertilization of the egg. Many times this is attempted because of the egg not being able to fall into the fallopian tube