The year of 1981 was nothing more than a number to some, but for a small handful, this was a year they would never forget. With this new year came great hope and opportunity for mothers who had been deemed as "infertile". In vitro fertilization (IVF) had been tested, tried, and practiced for decades before we received the first success story. Fast forward to today's time and you will discover the evolvement of both IVF and multiple other assistive reproductive technology (ART) methods. The purpose of assistive reproduction primarily aims to give couples who once struggled with creating a family on their own a hand in successfully conceiving. In vitro fertilization is a form of assistive reproduction that is completed outside of the human …show more content…
The recent growth and development of ART show no signs of slowing, as the process continues to reach for all time high statistics. Focusing solely on the scientific statistics, assistive reproduction is praised. However, the ethical issues that arise from ART are not so positive. While I believe that ART is practical, beneficial, and a scientific miracle-worker, I also believe that the negatives accompaniments cannot be ignored. The concept of selecting the sex of your baby, and destroying the embryo if it is not the sex you wanted, takes it a step too far for me. In regard to this topic, it seems as though pregnancy has become a selective game, all at …show more content…
An additional issue of IVF is the argument of both legal and ethical issues that surrogacy brings. Surrogacy should be a selfless act, but instead, it is apparent that often times, issues arise with the surrogate mother becoming too attached and taking a selfish stance in time spent with the child. Legally, this becomes an issue. If I trusted someone to carry my child for nine months, I would trust them to hand over my child when they were born. Surrogate mothers are legally inclined to carry the child, and give the parents full rights and custody when the infant arrives (Feldman, 2017). On another hand, I find a overwhelming personal and ethical issue that underlies the decision of surrogacy. I would struggle with not being able to carry my child, as I feel as though children have a natural inclination to develop an unbreakable bond with their birth mother. Perhaps the most disputed ethical issue is the one that questions if ART methods get too close to the idea of creating "designer babies". To this, I would answer yes and no. Yes, in the stance of the opportunity to select certain aspects of your child. If parents are able to choose the sex of their children today, there is no telling what they will be able to choose in the years to come. No, in the stance that I do not believe that this was the intended purpose of the creation of ART; I do believe that it has advanced and evolved into this but I do not think that this was the