Beginning of life (M3) Flashcards
pro choice
perspective that focuses on women’s right to choose abortion
pro life
perspective that focuses on fetus’s right to life
-most views hold that life begins at conception
quickening
occurs when a fetus begins to move independently of its mother, usually 4 or 5 months after conception
moral person/ personhood
beings who are not yet considered persons, but will become persons by time of birth
infertility
inability of heterosexual couple to conceive after one year of vaginal intercourse without contraceptives
surrogate motherhood
when one woman bears a child for another person, regardless of the method of fertility
artificial insemination
reproductive technique where sperm is injected into a woman’s vagina- may be from 3rd party donor
fertility drugs
meds that stimulate ovulation in women= hyper ovulation to increase the chance of contraception during sex
in vitro fertilization
reproductive technique that involves harvesting eggs for a woman and fertilizing them in a lab
reproductive cloning
reproductive technique used to create a genetic twin of the OG
somatic-cell nuclear transfer
reproductive cloning technique involves the removal of egg nucleus and using electricity to fuse the nucleus of an adult cell to egg to create zygote
-fusion sparks cell division