Moral Issues
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August 13, 2015
Moral issues raised by Artificial Insemination
| Un-natural? | Not the way God intended people to procreate |
| Must not replace sex | |
| Takes the beauty and love out of creating a child | |
| Donor sperm | Attack on sanctity of marriage |
| Donor’s sperm can only be used a limited number of times | |
| Donor must remain anonymous | |
| Child | Who are the child’s parents? |
| What if he wants to contact the biological father? | |
| There may be tensions between child through AID and any previous/subsequent child | |
| Availability | Should lesbian couples be allowed to have children? |
| Should single women be allowed to have children? | |
| Should people with disabilities or people over a certain age be allowed to us AI? | |
| Cost | Is it appropriate to buy sperm over the internet? |
| Is it right to pay more to get sperm from an athletic genius? | |
| Should AID be freely available on the NHS? | |
| Husband | Husband may feel jealous/inadequate |
| Husband may find it more difficult to bond with the baby |
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproductive_technology for all technologies:
- artificial insemination
- artificial wombs
- cloning (see human cloning for the special case of human beings)
- cryopreservation of sperm, oocytes, embryos
- embryo testing
- embryo transfer
- genetic engineering
- hormone treatment to increase fertility
- in vitro fertilization
- preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD)
- sperm selection
- reprogenetics
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