Religion and Fertility Treatment

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Religion and Fertility Treatment
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Difficulties in conceiving affect 10 of
couples Modern medical techniques allow these
problems to be overcome Some of the techniques
raise ethical problems
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• Different types of Fertility Treatment
• In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF)
• test-tube baby
• Eggs fertilised outside mothers body, then
  placed back inside
• Womans eggs and mans sperm both used

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• Different types of Fertility treatment
• 2. Artificial Insemination by donor (AID)
• Donated sperm placed in the womb
• Donor is father, Womans eggs used
• Ethical Dilemma?

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• Different Types of Fertility Treatment
• 3. Artificial Insemination by Husband (AIH)
• Medical problem stopping conception
• Womans eggs, mans sperm both used

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• Different Types of Fertility Treatment
• 4. Egg or sperm storing
• Can be used in the future if something happens
  to one of the partners
• The case of Diane Blood (HWK Research)

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Christian Attitudes To Fertility Treatment The
Bible suggests that if people cant have
children, it is because God has made it that way.
Children are a gift from God. But most Christian
Churches accept fertility treatment, provided it
is the husbands sperm and the wifes eggs
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The Roman Catholic Church is against all
artificial Fertility Treatment. - It is
unnatural - It involves unused eggs being
destroyed - Masturbation is a sin - No one
has the right to children - Children should
be conceived through sexual intercourse -
Those without children could adopt a child