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difficulties in doing so. Aside from adoption, the possibilities for these couples include: Intrauterine Insemination (IUI), In vitro Fertilization (IVI), and Surrogate Mother Arrangements. While these options may result in a pregnancy, they are not without risk and must be considered prayerfully, as they carry a moral and ethical weight. First, Intrauterine Insemination, also known as artificial insemination, is a process commonly used for unexplained infertility in which specially washed sperm is directly

Running head: SHOULD SURROGATE MOTHERS BE LEGAL IN TAIWAN Should Surrogate mothers be legalized in Taiwan? Evelyn Liu National Central University Abstract Surrogate mothers has been a critical issue in many countries for a long time. Recently, Taiwan has an issue on its legalization. There is already a draft passed in the Legislative Yuan. However, many people still debate about should surrogate mothers be legalized in Taiwan? From different aspects, including moral, law, homosexuals, and so on

Surrogates are defined as a “women who gestates a fetus for others, usually for a couple or another woman.”(Vaughn, 398) Surrogates have a few types of surrogacy, which are traditional and gestational surrogacy. Traditional surrogacy is defined as the “sperm from either the couple’s male partner or a donor is used to artificially inseminate the surrogate (the “surrogate mother”). (Vaughn, 398) Then there is Gestational surrogacy, which is defined as “the surrogate receives a transferred embryo created

Making someone else's baby Surrogate mothers carry another couple’s child with her own eggs or fertilized eggs from other women. Surrogate motherhood is unethical and needs to be banned due to the fact that reproductive technologies are inhuman and a form of violence therefore, as surrogacy becomes more popular, legal problems proliferate. Reproductive technologies such as In Vitro Fertilization and surrogacy are a form of violence against women because they technologically ravage women's bodies

When a couple decides to have a baby but is unable to due to infertility issues, surrogacy becomes an option. Surrogates who agree to bear a child for another couple have made parenthood a possible option for individuals that are not able to adopt a child. Reasons may be because of their age, marital status, or sexual orientation. There are two kinds of surrogate mothers. A traditional surrogate is a woman who is artificially inseminated with the father’s viable sperm. The traditional surrogate is

Gestational surrogacy: the laws and related conflicts in Europe Introduction Surrogacy has been known for over thousand years since it was described in the Old Testament of the Holy Bible. However, we have almost no information about the practice of surrogacy until the end of the 20th century in the UK. It gained great attention with the ‘Baby Cotton’ and the ‘Baby M’ case in both the UK and the US then. (Horsey & Sheldon, 2012) The view during those days was that surrogacy was a symbol of the

Before reading this article, I must admit that I was not educated on the available options for men living with HIV to conceive biological children. I always thought that they were limited to adoption and the use of a sperm donors. I never though that an HIV positive person could have sex with an HIV negative person without transferring the infection. I’ve always known that a person’s viral load played a part in they’re ability to transfer the virus, but I still wondered what person in their right

Toni-Ann Tait Tait-1 Yafeng Wang Introduction to Philosophy 25 September 2017 Infertility is defined as the inability to conceive after one year of unprotected intercourse (six months if the woman is over the age 35) or the inability to carry a pregnancy to live birth. In the United States, 7.4 million women have been stricken with the disease. 1 To resolve this issue, potential parents look for other options to add to their growing family. Gestational surrogacy is the last resort for

How would you like to wake up next to your boyfriend/husband someday and find out he is your half-brother? I wonder how often this happens and I wonder how many people don’t even realize its happened to them. We live in a time where you don’t need to have a relationship with someone to have their child, you don’t even have to know them. With egg donors and sperm donors this has become common place. I believe it should be a mandatory requirement for anyone involved with sperm or egg donation to register

Reproduction is a fundamental right given to everybody. Unfortunately, there are some of us no reproductive capabilities. In today’s world advances in reproductive techniques such as invitro fertilization, egg or sperm donation and gestational surrogacy have sparked new interests to women who do not have the ability to reproduce on their own. Legal, moral and ethical issues have been raised about these advanced methods of reprodution used to substitute natural conception and birth. These advanced