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Right to a child
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- 1Situation ethics in right to a child-Joseph Fletcher: IVF and AID are not wrong in themselves. A third person is not personally involved in the sexual relationship- what matters is the outcome of the pregnancy.
-IVF is the utilising of human creativity and technology for compassionate reasons.
-Love should show no preferential treatment. A paedophile?
-Is it loving to discard embryos?
-Can we truly predict the consequences of creating a child through artificial means
-IVF treatment does not guarantee success and so it may not be loving to allow a couple to go through the emotional trauma and heartbreak of repeated unsuccessful attempts. - 2Utilitarianism on Right to a child-Does not protect the rights of the embryo nor does it view it as sacred.
-The pain caused through creating and discarding surplus embryos must be weighed against the pleasure of the parents and the baby that is created.
-Low success rate, financial cost and impact on the parents and their family and friends should be considered.
-Whether money would be spent by the health service to save more lives and increase overall happiness.
-Will there be unforeseen long term consequences which are harmful to society such as being unable to unnaturally choose the sex of a child or even physical appearance. - 3Kantian ethics on right to a child-If an embryo is considered a human person, it cannot be treated as a means to an end, and so the destruction of many embryos to create one life cannot be justified.
-Kantianism would not support the idea of one human being having a right over another. (selection of genetically matching embryos)
-Only concerned with good will not with agony of childlessness.
-Do AID and surrogacy use people as means to an end? - 4Christian ethics on right to a child-From moment of conception life is sacred, destroying of surplus embryos.
-IVF takes the baby away from the expression of love and becomes simply part of a mechanical process.
-Disapprove of freezing embryos, and surrogacy
-Liberal protestants may maintain that we should imitate Jesus' ethos of love and compassion, helping the childless with IVF.
-Paul Ramsey opposed AID as reproduction should take place within a faithful marriage as the love between husband and wife should reflect the love of christ for the church. - 5Natural law on right to a child-Objections to IVF: Masturbation, necessary to obtain sperm is seen as a misuse of genitalia, destruction of surplus embryos
-To produce a third party into the reproductive progress would be an attack on the sanctity of marrieage as well as potentially threatening the order of society if children have two fathers e.g.
-IVF for a single mother would be going against God's plan for humanity as it can clearly be seen from nature that a man and a woman are designed to create new life through sexual union.
-Some claim that those couples who are infertile are so through the will of God.
-For possible health benefits from research on spare embryos would be to pursue an apparent good.
-Argued-the use of our God-given reason to develop new reproductive methods can justify the use of these medical techniques.
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