Fertility

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Available Fertility Treatments.

Advice to couple about when and how they should have sex

Address lifestyle issues (smoking, alcohol)

Drug/Hormone treatment

Fertility Treatments

AI ( Artificial Insemination)

AI involves collecting sperm and artificially placing it into the uterus of a female to make her pregnant without sexual intercourse.

In Vitro Fertilization

A scientific method of making a woman pregnant which does not involve sex. An egg is with drawn from the woman and fertilized with a man's semen in a test tube

A women's ovaries are stimulated with hormones to produce multiple eggs.

Each egg is fertilized with sperm and some embryos are placed back into the uterus at the 8 celled stage.

Other embryos can be frozen for later possible use.

Embryos that are not used are usually destroyed

First test tube baby : 1978 Louise Btown

Artificial Insemination by Husband (AIH)

Sperm from the Husband

Artificial Insemination by Donor ( AID)

Would use from and anonymous donor if the husband had a genetic defect that could be passed down

If the husband's sperm wasn't working properly i.e bent tail, no sperm, very little ect.

What is the law surrounding Human Fertilization?

The 1990 Human Fertilization and Embryology Act

Embryos have to be discarded withing 14 days

Illegal to create hybrids ( animal / human embryos)

Church Teaching FOR ferility treatment

Children bring happiness

Life is God given therefore any new life is good

"be fruitful and multiply" Genesis 1:28 God's instruction to procreate

Agape ( selfless love) - it may be the most loving thing to put the good gift of medicine to good use

'Be fruitful and multiply' - Genesis 1:28 - God's instruction to procreate to Adam and Eve. ------> You would be fulfilling God's command if you used fertility treatment.

Children bring happiness

Life is God given therefore any new life is good

Agape (selfless love) - it may be the most loving thing to put the good gift of medicine to use

IVF can e acceptable if all embryos are replaced into the womb

Infertility is considered to be a medical health problem... should be fixed just like any other illness.

Methodist: embryo research can discover cures which could save many lives

Children are a blessing from God, not a right - (Psalm 127:3 'Children are a gift from the Lord; they are reward from him') ;

Children should not be seen as a commodity

God is the giver of life ( Job 1:21 - 'the Lord gives and the Lord takes away') Using fertility treatment is 'playing God'

God chooses whether people have children ( e.g Hannah in 1 Samuel 1:5 'the Lord had closed her womb')

It is unnatural to create a child outside of sexual intercourse

The destruction of spare embryos is considered to be murder

Catholic Church : masturbation is wrong (a sin) cannot be used for IVF or AI

General

Why Christians might support

Not support