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the 1970s (Chittom and Wagner). There are two types of surrogacy: traditional surrogacy and gestational surrogacy. In traditional surrogacy, the surrogate mother is impregnated using the sperm of the intended father by a procedure called donor insemination. In this case, the surrogate mother and the intended father are genetically related to the baby. In gestational surrogacy, a procedure called in vitro fertilization is used to impregnate the surrogate mother using a couple’s fertilized ovum (Chittom

Selective breeding has been used for many years to achieve the expression of desired traits in animals and plants. Similar to natural selection, humans have developed artificial selection where humans select the most desirable traits instead of the environment, this is what’s known as selective breeding. But in fact selective breeding does not select for the fittest phenotype like in natural selection it actually selects for the most desirable phenotypes which may cause harm to the individual. Natural

Should surrogacy be permitted in Australia? Surrogacy has been a contentious issue in Australia and many jurisdictions generally permit altruistic surrogacy but prohibit commercial surrogacy. There have been legal and moral disputes in our society on whether surrogacy is righteous and should be permitted. In determining whether surrogacy is permitted, the court looks at a range of factors to decide whether surrogacy acts in the best interests of the child. The factors favour in allowing surrogacy

I have such a hard time with this topic. Reading all of these articles and watching these videos have genuinely put some things into perspective. These things are those of which I have never put much thought toward, if any. Should we interfere with the natural process? First I want to touch on the slide that Dr. Scott Rae presented from the Newsweek magazine. I do agree when he says that we are interfering with the natural process by waiting so long to have children, if we are physically capable

I believe school is exceedingly important. In Mark Mathabane’s story Kaffir Boy it states, “I want you to go to school, because I believe that an education is the key you need to open up a new world and a new life for yourself, a world and life different from that of either your father’s or mine,” (78). This quotation is important to me because, I believe an education is key and you can change your whole life by having an education. An education will help you learn necessary skills for life. Such

Surrogate motherhood refers to that condition of a fertile (footnote) woman who has been contracted to become impregnated via reproductive technologies such as donor or artificial insemination. It is that condition wherein that fertile woman also has agreed to transfer her rights on the child to the biological parents after giving birth. This is bounded by a contract that was signed by the contracting parents and the surrogate. The reasons for this generally fall into two categories. Either the contracting

In today’s society, us as humans have many different ideologies, but more importantly have ethical standards that we live by, or most of us do. Ethics is important in everyday life, from having morals to what you believe in. You have to think about if my action was morally permissible or impermissible. Was my action wrong or right? All of this comes into play when we talk about ethical issues we have throughout our lifetime. Many of us consider us as Christians, which you believe in the Bible, but

When two married adults find themselves in a situation where they would like children, but due to other circumstances, they are unable to naturally conceive a child themselves. It is in this case when a couple may choose surrogacy, defined by Merriam-Webster dictionaries as “the practice by which a woman (called a surrogate mother) becomes pregnant and gives birth to a baby in order to give it to someone who cannot have children.” Naturally, when making a decision regarding surrogacy, the two adults

Introduction Surrogacy is a method of assisted reproduction that helps intended parents start families (La Jolla 2012). While there are two forms, traditional and gestational, gestational surrogacy is the most widely used today. The reason for this is because it allows for both intended parents to have a genetic tie to their child. Whereas in traditional, only the intended father had the genetic tie. While both processes are extremely pricy, costing at least $100,000 in the United States, gestational

Perhaps one of the greatest human desires is to create and love a child. There are those who, by nature, do not possess such personal aspiration, seeking preventative measures to avoid conception. Then there are those thrilled to take on the role of parent, whether or not pregnancy fit into the initial plan. Still there are those who long for a tiny biological life, which cannot be traditionally conceived or carried to term due to a failure of mechanisms within the body beyond the control of the