Critique Paper On Human in Vitro Fertilization

MANIQUEZ, JOHN LESTER M.
BS PSYCHOLOGY 3-1
CRITIQUE PAPER
Advanced Information: HUMAN IN VITRO FERTILIZATION

Nobelfӧrsamlingen (The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet)
Historically, diminutive medical help has been accessible to sterile

individuals, who were hence forced to risk their health and even lives, by
involving themselves in more or less vague infertility-treatment procedures.
Now, a thanks to this breakthrough advance physiological treatment that
serves as a clear answer to infertility and child rearing, the human in vitro
fertilization. Human in vitro fertilization (IVF) is a medical advancement that
represents a paradigm shift in the treatment of many types of infertility. The
inability of a person to conceive a child is a reproductive defect that afflicts
more than 10% of all couples worldwide.
The evidences were really astonishing for it is explained well and
supported with relevant studies such as (1) first study of the in vitro
fertilization in a non-mammalian species whereas marine animals were the
first to observed, where the fertilization process most often takes place
outside the body in an aquatic environment, (2) the first observation of sperm
penetration into an egg reported in Ascaris by Nelson in 1851 and succeeding
studies in non-mammalian species, (3) Gregory Pincus, at the Worcester
Foundation for Experimental Biology in the US, described in 1935 the first
experimental conditions that allowed mammalian gamète (from rabbit) to
mature in vitro, reaching the metaphase stage of meiosis II, (4) Min Chueh
Chang showed to her research with Pincus in 1959 that in vitro-matured
rabbit oocytes could be fertilized in vitro and also give rise to viable embryos.
Moreover, when these embryos where transferred back to adult females, they
gave rise to live offsprings, (5) known experimental in vitro conditions
through which spermatozoa (from hamster) without prior in vivo activation,
could fertilize oocytes and give rise to 2-cell stage embryos, and (6) Robert G.
Edwards who worked on in vitro fertilization in human gone through series of
experimentation until July 25, 1978 where the birth of the first baby through
human in vitro fertilization happened. These were historic to the world as 4
million babies were conceived through human in vitro fertilization as of 2010.
Leading Robert G. Edwards to accept the Nobel Prize in Physiology or
Medicine in 2010.
Giving the fact that it is used to conceive a child, the direct beneficiaries
of human in vitro fertilization are those infertile couples, those engaged in
homosexual relationships and marriage, persons who do not want to get
married but wanted to have an offspring (like Joel Cruz, founder of Aficionado
who has no partner but gone through rounds of in vitro fertilization
procedures giving birth to his 9 lovely children), and those who like to have a
child but doesn’t capable of handling it in the natural way (those with health
issues, blood related diseases, and even adult couples who’d like to have a
child). Human in vitro fertilization gives hope to many to build and rear a
family of their own. An impossible turned possible by science.
Being a breakthrough, there are a lot of interesting things we could get in
this article about Human In Vitro Fertilization, there are the scientific
procedures, the historical bases, ethical considerations etc. That will truly
captivates your interest as a reader. Just like the historical and cultural
background of different nations in treating infertility. But for me, the most
interesting thing this article contains is the “hope” it gives to people especially
those who has difficulty in child bearing and cannot bear a child. It gives
them a sense of hope, a second-chance in life. Although this procedure is
really expensive, but the kind of fulfillment it brings to you as a parent is
inexplicable. I know that realistically and practically speaking that adoption is
much more cheaper if you only wants to have a child, but there is a much
more impact knowing that your child is made up of your own flesh and blood.
It is really vital nowadays to continue this breakthrough especially that
society nowadays learns to accept the homosexual marriage. Continuing this
breakthrough is not just for their sake, but also for the human kind and
propagation of the next generation. Continuing this is not just simply opening
its doors on whoever desires to have it. We must mandate it to have a
thorough background check, assessment, and capacity to raise a child.
Because life is the one at stake here. We must be careful on every aspect of
in vitro fertilization. Remeber that it is synthetic process compared to the
natural bearing. There is a little possibility that the life of the person and the
child undergone with this procedure change. It is a decision that requires
thorough discussion. We cannot undo it nor abort it anytime we wanted. Talk
to your partner about it and let you decide together for your future, for the
child’s welfare, and for your life’s betterment.

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Historically, diminutive medical help has been accessible to sterile

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