Ethos
PRO Quotes:
Brooke Shields is a 49 year old actress from New York City. In the 1990s, Shields promoted physical fitness as an extension of feminity. After she went through an in vitro fertilization cycle, Shields became extremely depressed. It created stress after she suffered a miscarriage.
“The difficulty of IVF or of any fertility issues is the hope and the shattered hope, the dream that it might happen this time and then it doesn’t happen.”
– Brooke Shields
Patrick Steptoe was a British scientist and medical researcher who with Robert Edwards, perfected in-vitro fertilization of the human egg. He delivered the world's first test-tube baby, Louise Brown on July 25th, 1978. Steptoe subsequently helped hundreds of infertile couples have children.
“I'm not a wizard or a Frankenstein tampering with Nature. We are not creating life. We have merely done what many people try to do in all kinds of medicine—to help nature. We found nature could not put an egg and sperm together, so we did it. We do not see anything immoral in doing that in the interests of the mother. I cannot see anything immoral in trying to help the patient’s problem.”
-Patrick Steptoe
Read more: http://todayinsci.com/S/Steptoe_Patrick/SteptoePatrick-Quotations.htm
CON Quotes:
Schalesky is an author of nine books about in vitro fertilization. After twenty years on the infertility journey, and numerous miscarriages, Marlo now has six children and plenty of animals. She’s been published in many magazines and is quoted on her comments about in vitro fertilization.
“Often, couples decide to harvest more eggs than they plan to use, which means that some of the embryos end up being destroyed, or frozen for later use. However, if the couple conceives immediately, they may never need to use the frozen embryos, which would then end up being destroyed. The Bible does not give us permission to destroy innocent human life—this would be murder.”
–Marlo Schalesky
Read more:http://www.gotquestions.org/in-vitro-fertilization.html#ixzz3bFWRNgv1
Philosophy Professor Amnon Goldworth, senior Medical Ethicist-in-Residence, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, published the ethics of in vitro fertilization creating a controversial debate. The article discussed God’s role in the process and many other outside influences.
“If the embryo is viewed as a human being with the rights normally associated with personhood, arresting its development will be considered a wrong because it constitutes an act of murder.”
– Amnon Goldworth, PhD
Read more: http://pedsinreview.aappublications.org/content/20/8/e28.full
Brooke Shields is a 49 year old actress from New York City. In the 1990s, Shields promoted physical fitness as an extension of feminity. After she went through an in vitro fertilization cycle, Shields became extremely depressed. It created stress after she suffered a miscarriage.
“The difficulty of IVF or of any fertility issues is the hope and the shattered hope, the dream that it might happen this time and then it doesn’t happen.”
– Brooke Shields
Patrick Steptoe was a British scientist and medical researcher who with Robert Edwards, perfected in-vitro fertilization of the human egg. He delivered the world's first test-tube baby, Louise Brown on July 25th, 1978. Steptoe subsequently helped hundreds of infertile couples have children.
“I'm not a wizard or a Frankenstein tampering with Nature. We are not creating life. We have merely done what many people try to do in all kinds of medicine—to help nature. We found nature could not put an egg and sperm together, so we did it. We do not see anything immoral in doing that in the interests of the mother. I cannot see anything immoral in trying to help the patient’s problem.”
-Patrick Steptoe
Read more: http://todayinsci.com/S/Steptoe_Patrick/SteptoePatrick-Quotations.htm
CON Quotes:
Schalesky is an author of nine books about in vitro fertilization. After twenty years on the infertility journey, and numerous miscarriages, Marlo now has six children and plenty of animals. She’s been published in many magazines and is quoted on her comments about in vitro fertilization.
“Often, couples decide to harvest more eggs than they plan to use, which means that some of the embryos end up being destroyed, or frozen for later use. However, if the couple conceives immediately, they may never need to use the frozen embryos, which would then end up being destroyed. The Bible does not give us permission to destroy innocent human life—this would be murder.”
–Marlo Schalesky
Read more:http://www.gotquestions.org/in-vitro-fertilization.html#ixzz3bFWRNgv1
Philosophy Professor Amnon Goldworth, senior Medical Ethicist-in-Residence, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, published the ethics of in vitro fertilization creating a controversial debate. The article discussed God’s role in the process and many other outside influences.
“If the embryo is viewed as a human being with the rights normally associated with personhood, arresting its development will be considered a wrong because it constitutes an act of murder.”
– Amnon Goldworth, PhD
Read more: http://pedsinreview.aappublications.org/content/20/8/e28.full