Can fertility treatment be considered moral?

Treatment for Infertility

Treatment for infertility is moral and ethical. It is up to us as humans to identify the issues facing the globe and find the best solutions. Another issue that needs to be addressed is infertility. The method is thought to be moral because it results in a secure and healthy delivery of the child. Because the procedure is medical and serves to prolong human life and elevate societal standing, it is morally acceptable just like other medical procedures. A person doesn’t have the right to a child. Instead, children are considered to be given gifts from God. However, it takes the efforts of a man and a woman to get a child. Fertility treatment is one of the efforts of couples of getting children.

Q3. Is infertility a disease?

Infertility cannot be considered a disease especially when is attained at the old age. Once an individual hits the menopause age limit, she is expected to be naturally infertile like presented in this case. As such, infertility cannot be considered as a disease but rather as a natural condition that happens with age and physical conditions.

Q4. Is IUI ethically accepted?

IUI is not ethically accepted. This is because it poses a lot of questions in the parenthood of the involved parties. It is ruling out the notion of parenthood that stems from a mutual union between two people in marriage. It is not ethically accepted as it does not provide a clear indication of the actual biological parents of a child.

Q5. Focus your thoughts or logical reasons for supporting or opposing the case

Infertility treatment is moral as it functions as a last resort for individuals who cannot give birth through the natural means. It acts as a medical process that functions to make life better for everyone. Although some people say that it is against the will of God, it can be argued that even the other medical processes are against the will of God. Without such processes, the world would not be a better place to be in.

Q6. Two key problems

One of the problems of infertility treatment is the eventual lack of biological identity of the child especially when the mother obtains sperms from the sperm bank (Zhu et al., 2011). Secondly, infertility treatment encourages life in which prefer to remain single and still get children in the long run (Murphy, 2001). The case study has however not presented the illustration of the use of fertility treatment for people who have not attained menopause (Beall & DeCherney, 2012).

Q7. Possible solutions

The problems related to fertility treatment can be solved through various ways (Hansen, Dikmen, Cole, Ortega & Dahl, 2016). To begin with, sperm donation should be made by specific people as recommended by the mother to encourage attainment of the desired child traits (Epstein & Rosenberg, 2005). Secondly, the doctors should keep records of the sperm donors, and the government should make it legal for parents to trace their children and give biological identity which most children lack currently (Tanaka, 2009).

Q8. The best solution

The best solution would be encouraging governments to make it a requirement for the sperm donors to have the rights to tracing their children and giving them the lacking fatherly and biological identities. This would assist in making the parenthood of the children better hence answering the various questions that have been trending concerning parenthood.

References

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