In-Vitro Fertilization - A thought paper essays

In-Vitro Fertilization - A thought paper essays I see no problem with in vitro fertilization when used to circumvent the inability to create children. Likewise, using selective breeding to reduce the chances of disease is also a very noble thing to do. One could argue that it would be immoral to not perform such actions if one has the means to do so. The initial differences between natural fertilization and in vitro fertilization are minimal at best. Embryos are normally created in the uterus of a female after a sporadic chain of events involving the interaction of sperm with eggs. In contract, IVF is very much the same process of sperm/egg interaction but the physician simply chooses what sperm gets to interact with which egg. Within these confines, most major religions and ideologies accept IVF as an acceptable form of procreation because the sanctity of the embryo is still protected. The actual process of human creation is still innately natural. The problems really arise from the preparation required in vitro fertilization. Since in vitro fertilization is expensive, time-consuming, and physically arduous to a female, multiple eggs have to be removed to ensure successful fertilization in the fewest number of procedures. Since this guarantees that there will be more than embryo that will form, there is an issue of what to do with the other embryos that arent deemed fit to be implanted into the uterus of the female. This is where I see John Singers logic most fitting. In the 14 days of fertilization, embryos are not susceptible to pain because their cells are undifferentiated. Until the embryo reaches a point of consciousness (not to be mistaken with self-consciousness because some animals exhibit that characteristic and unjustifiably are made to suffer in scientific research), there is really nothing we can do to the embryo which causes harm to it. And hence, why I believe it is moral to discard the embryos that will not be used. If one ag...