Listening The Audio Clip Below. What Would You Do?

Many women feel hesitant to discuss their  difficulties with conceiving and  carrying babies to term, fearing embarrassment, judgment from others, or simply other people’s awkward or inappropriate responses.10 percent of women (6.1 million) between the ages of 15- 44 in the U.S. struggle getting pregnant according to the (CDC) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

When parents know the fetus is “special”, they may be chosen to terminate the pregnancy. Thus, in general prenatal screening helps to detect congenital disabilities but is also thought to be the 'remedy' selective abortion (Seller, 1976).

abort the baby. He is still uncertain as to whether she will in fact go through with the abortion,

This case study talks about a couple, Mark and Cory who are dwarfs. They are afraid of becoming parents to a child who is different from them. They feel like if their child is not born like them they wont be capable of taking care of that child. Since they are little people they have made many arrangements in there living environment that suites their lifestyle. They also mention that being little is part of their culture now and that their lives should be seen as dignified as the lives of others. Mark and Cory decided to talk to a genetic counselor about the likelihood of PGD and how this might give them the opportunity of having a child just like them. However when they meet with the genetic counselor he ask the couple to consider

In the scenario regarding making the decision on aborting the child with Down Syndrome is really tough decision to take especially in Susan’s case since she was facing pregnancy difficulties

Evidence stated in this essay is less than what one would think because when this issue is usually discussed the writer lets their emotion over run the issue. She uses her family enough to let her audience know that she has a little credibility with the situation. Asking her husband a question about what if she accidentally got what would he want her to do? He says “and waste a perfectly good human being”(628)? He said this being sarcastic and really meaning that even though they might struggle with having a third child that they would still keep it and love it as much as their other children. She used her husband to show that the choice is not just for the female but for the male also.

Daniel and I knew from the moment we met we wanted to spend the rest of our lives together. You could say it was love at first sight. As unbeleivable as it may be we knew when we met we wanted to have a family together ASAP! Through "trying" naturally Dan and I were unsuccessfull in the first 6 months, at this point we figured rather be safe than sorry and reached out to a reproductive endrocrologist for assistance. Since then in 2011 it has been 5 years of unsuccesfully trying for a child. Without getting into the details we have done 12 medicated procdures totalling thousdands of dollars over the years with no success. Our most recent try was this past month (November 2015) which also was unsuccessfull.

An expectant mother goes to her obstetrician for her monthly exam. The doctor confirms a concern the he or she has from the previous exam and orders an amniocentesis. An amniocentesis is performed by removing amniotic fluid, with a long needle, from the placenta to be used for genetic testing. Results from the “amnio” revealed a mutant gene for cystic fibrosis is carried by the fetus. Abortion was a recommended option

She does not want to kill her unborn child but feels like there is no other

     An unexpected pregnancy is no reason to abort the baby. If someone is mature enough to make the decision to have sex, they should be mature enough to do it properly, and if they do not, they should live with the consequences of their actions. The only way to totally prevent a pregnancy is to practice total abstinence, which is the only birth control that is 100%. Practicing

keep the child or have it aborted, one side of the tracks is beautiful the other side is dry and

Infertility is a big topic in the book One Foot in Eden by Ron Ras=h. This affects many charters in the story like the Sheriff and his wife. The sheriff and his wife are happily married, but the moment that changed them forever was the night the sheriff’s wife woke up bleeding. ““Something’s wrong” she’d said that June night. I’d reached up and turned on the lamp. Blood soaked the bed’s center, the blood of our child…“You won’t be able to have children,” the doctor said” (Rash 35). The sheriff’s wife had a miscarriage and was told that she was infertile. This made them very distant from each other This is the same case with Amy and Billy but

In late 2011 Kelley was 30 she wanted to help a couple conceive and she could use the surrogate fee- often upwards of 20,000—to supplement her income as she raised her girls. In October 2011 the embryos were transferred to Kelley. She said she received not only the financial support that she had expected from the intended parents. But everything changed with her surrogacy on the day of her 21-week anatomy scan she saw flickers of concern come across the teach-in’s face during the scan. Then she started getting alarming message from the intended mother telling her to abort the baby because she’s not going to have an imperfect baby with a cleft palette.

Mike and Kim Shawn struggled to have a baby. First they tried insemination, then they did IVF four times and then GIFT which is a fertility treatment silimar to IVF but in this procedure fertilization happens naturally after your doctor places eggs and sperm directly inside one of your fallopian tubes. This is the treatment that finally succedded in getting Kim pregnant. The couple had went through many different emotions after four miscarriages, the financial burdens and all the horomone treatments and injections. So, when they finally were pregnant, it was a huge blessing to them. In fertility treatments, often the female becomes pregnant with multiples and Kim was an example of this. She was pregnant with fraternal twin boys. One of the

First we need to address what is deemed an unwanted pregnancy and when is it necessary to do so. In some instances, some will find that they do not want their pregnancy as soon as a positive test result comes back. In other cases, it may not occur till later in the pregnancy. Perhaps a spouse decides to leave or dies. Maybe the women learns that the unborn child will have some type of