Development in Bioethics Flashcards
Exodus 20:13
You shall not kill
Psalm 139:13
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
Jeremiah 1:5
Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you
What 2 things is bioethics concerned with?
- Creating life
- Maintaining life
What is human infertility?
When a couple is unable to have a baby naturally.
How can infertility be caused?
-Man not producing enough sperm
-Woman suffering from ovulation disorder
What does IVF stand for?
In vitro fertilization.
What is the process of IVF?
-Egg fertilised outside woman’s body
-Egg and sperm brought together in petri dish
-The sperm fertilises the egg which develop into blastocysts after 5-6 days
-Embryo implanted into uterus
-Several fertilised eggs put into womb hoping woman gets pregnant.
What is IUI (Intrauterine insemination/Artificial Insemination)?
Sperm is collected from semen samples and introduced into a woman’s uterus when she is ovulating. The aim is to fertilise the egg.
What are the two types of IUI?
- IUI by partner or husband ~ When husband has healthy sperm but low sperm count
- IUI by donor ~ Occurs if husbands sperm isn’t healthy or has no sperm count or woman doesn’t have male partner.
What are the issues arising from fertility treatment?
- Spare embryos
- Compromising religious beliefs on marriage
- Medical complications (multiple births)
- Designer babies
- Child may face identity crisis
- Three parent IVF
What is embryo experimentation?
The use of embryos that helps scientists discover more about genetic diseases and disorders etc…
What is the different churches teaching on embryo experimentation?
-CC against it, believes embryo must be defended and cared for.
-COE ~ it’s acceptable up until 14 days
-COI ~ unacceptable to create embryos for research just to destroy them.
What is human surrogacy?
Another woman gets pregnant and carries baby for someone who wants a child but is unable to.
What are the two types of surrogacy and their meaning?
- Traditional surrogacy - The husbands sperm is used to fertilise surrogate mothers egg.
- Gestational surrogacy - Surrogate mother becomes pregnant, the egg comes from intended mother which was fertilised through IVF and placed into surrogates womb.