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    theses treatments are Artificial insemination and GIFT. Artificial insemination is when the partner or husbands sperm count is low. Some samples of the sperm are taken and inserted into the women’s womb. This method has been available for over 50 years however it has a low success rate. GIFT or gamete intra – fallopian transfer is when the sperm and the egg are fertilised by an air bubble in a fine tube. They are injected into the women’s fallopian tube and fertilise naturally

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    Organ Selling Peering into the window of Da Vita dialysis, an elderly man sits patiently. His patience is not from the fact that he has no place to go afterwards; his schedule was clear. His patience came from the fact that he can bare the wait in the room, because he knows down the hall the nurse will be re-puncturing his forearm to administer the hemodialysis. It was his third time coming in this week, which meant he wouldn 't be back until next week. Of course, when he looks at the bruising on

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    when the egg from the female is fertilized by the sperm from the male outside of the body and then replaced inside the uterus to have the highest chance of pregnancy. This may be viewed as “Playing God”, but it is widely used without the world for the greater good. There are many reasons why this technology should be used widely throughout the world, such as eliminating genetic diseases in the near future, allowing homosexual

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    Imagine yourself sitting on the examination table at your doctor’s office, you have been experiencing nausea, fatigue, appetite loss, muscle cramps and other symptoms for the past couple months or so. Today is the day you will finally get your bloodwork results back, the overwhelming fear of the unknown will finally be put to rest. Your mind is racing with the never ending possibilities of life threatening illnesses but you try and remain calm, convincing yourself that everything will be ok. The

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    well-known forms of surrogacy. Traditional uses intrauterine insemination to implant the biological father 's sperm into the egg of the surrogate. This procedure is typically used when the mother 's eggs or father 's sperm is no longer viable. Also, this procedure is less expensive and complex than in-vitro fertilization. This procedure allows the father of the child to be the biological sperm donor, and feel possessive over his kin. Due to the genetic relation of the baby to the surrogate mother in

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    "when a man and a woman love each other very much…" now with in vitro fertilization, fertility drugs, and sperm/egg donors as well as future advances the answer will take on a new twist "…they go to see a doctor and look through a catalog to pick what kind of baby they want." That is already true to some degree today. If a man or a woman is infertile they can look for sperm or egg donors, try fertility drugs or use in vitro fertilization to bring

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    traits in order to conceive the perfect child. To obtain these ideal gametes couples place advertisements, independently or through donor or fertility clinics, which list their desired characteristics and the price they are willing to pay for donation of sperm or eggs. It is unethical for individuals seeking an ideal conception to place donor-seeking ads including their genetic wish list and their monetary offer for those who fulfill this list. This paper

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    adoption (Canadian Surrogacy Options, Inc). Lastly, egg donation, would refer to the condition or process of maintaining a database for potential egg donors (Canadian Surrogacy Options, Inc.) For the purposes of this discussion, each of these engages in the commidification of the reproductive agency and human reproduction by legally and socially justifying a condition in which this capacity may become fungible. (FOOT NOTE) Mother’s egg, father’s sperm – this type of surrogacy is usually employed in

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    Szafranski v. Dunston, 2013 IL App (1st) 122975, 993 N.E.2d 502 Procedural Facts: In May 2010, a couple of months after Plaintiff Jacob Szafranski donated his sperm and have eight eggs fertilized for freezing, Plaintiff Jacob Szafranski sent Defendant Karla Dunston a text message ending the relationship. In August 2010, two months after the relationship ended, Plaintiff Jacob Szafranski filed a pro se complaint in the circuit court of Cook County. Plaintiff Jacob Szafranski sought to keep Defendant

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    Infertility is the fundamental lacking of the ability to conceive a baby, and both men and women can have this problem. Dr. Clark, our guest speaker in class pointed out that approximately 30% of men and women are infertile, while 25% of infertility cannot be explain by science yet. Because of that, infertility is no longer considered as a lifestyle problem but a disease instead. According to Dr. Clark, one of the options for the infertility patients today is the use of stem cell therapies to treat

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