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Reproductive Technologies: Article Analysis

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Reproductive technologies are becoming more common the quicker modern medicine evolves. Although there are many different issues revolving ART, Sally Sheldon argues in her article Reproductive Technologies and the Legal Determination of Fatherhood, the challenges that arise in granting status of parenthood creates tension in the courtrooms. Since the 1990’s questions over custody and parental responsibilities have been asked towards children born out of assisted reproduction technologies. If a parent were to pass away before an embryo is implanted or born, do they get recognized as the mother or father?
Sheldon writes about many cases involving parental responsibility problems. When a couple splits up after creating an embryo, the name that should be written on a birth certificate and who should have contact parental rights are not usually discussed. But an embryo becomes a child that needs a parent, financially, emotionally, and physically. The argument of who deserves to be liable for the child in case of a separation of spouses is problematic. Overtime ART has become a market, a business for infertile customers. However market aside, creating a life whether in a lab or in the bedroom it is a very serious commitment. All assisted reproductive
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Regulation on IVF and other fertility services is necessary. The procedures being done are medical, psychological, and controversial enough to receive federal attention. When a human being is made in a lab, laws need to exist in case a couple divorces, changes their mind, or to prevent immoral decisions in the future. Becoming a parent is an understandable human right, nonetheless the desire of conceiving a child of one’s own can get out of hand. Yearning can lead to selfish decision making. Customers in the fertility clinics are desperate and will do anything they can to have a
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