Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Fertility treatments
- For
- It shows compassion to
those who aren't able to
have children
themselves
- It's just a form of
medical treatment
restoring a natural
function
- It gives justice to
infertile couples to
whom nature has been
unfair
- The resulting child will
feel especially loved as
the parents went to
greater lengths to have
that child
- CHRISTIAN
- Children inrich a marriage so
enabling a couple to have
them is an act of compassion
- Medical scientists revieved
their skills from God and
God want us to be able to
overcome infertility
- Assisted conception
(IVF) isn't going
against nature it is
putting it right
- Following the example of Jesus and healing
- Against
- It's playing God
- Sperm donors
may not want their
act of good to a
childless couple to
come back to him
18 years later as a
person
- It could cause
tensions between
parents if only one
is genetically
related to the child
- Surrogate mothers
may bond with the child
they carry and suffer
when giving it up
especially if it is hers
genetically
- Mistakes can be
made such as the
embryo being
implanted into the
wrong woman
- IVF is expensive
is it really a wise
use of money for
the NHS?
- Problems arise if couples split up and
the ex-partener refuses use of frozen
embryos
- CHRISTIAN
- Having children
is agift from
God not a right
- If they want children they
should get them through
other means such as
adoption or fostering
- Donor insemination
brings a third person
into a marriage and
is adultery
- Children should be
created by an act
which is both unitive
and procreative and
IVF is neither