Re:Science Is Getting Us Closer To The End of Infertility
by bobthechef on Monday April 16, 2018 @06:31PM
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Treating infertility through technological means is not necessarily wrong. For example, taking a safe medication that corrects for some defect of the reproductive system is fine. But this, and IVF, are no such medication.
"Yet a funny thing happened, or didn’t, in the decades that followed: Millions of babies were conceived using IVF."
This doesn't address everything. Certainly, the health of the baby is important, but that's not the only problem. Another problem is the destruction of fertilized human embryos that IVF currently entails. However, even if we assume that we can perfect the technology to such a degree that none of this is an issue. We still have to contend with things like the commodification of human beings and the transformation of human beings into products to be made and sold, and made the subjects of economic transactions. Our acceptance and aggressive defense of such reproductive technologies may be another example of consumerism's hold on our values.
"Yet a funny thing happened, or didn’t, in the decades that followed: Millions of babies were conceived using IVF."
This doesn't address everything. Certainly, the health of the baby is important, but that's not the only problem. Another problem is the destruction of fertilized human embryos that IVF currently entails. However, even if we assume that we can perfect the technology to such a degree that none of this is an issue. We still have to contend with things like the commodification of human beings and the transformation of human beings into products to be made and sold, and made the subjects of economic transactions. Our acceptance and aggressive defense of such reproductive technologies may be another example of consumerism's hold on our values.
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