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How far should medical science be allowed to go in enabling people tohave children by artificial means?

Imagine for a moment that your sister needs a bone marrow transplant,
and no one can provide a match, that your wife’s early menopause has
made her unfertile, or that your five-year-old has drowned in a lake
and your grief has made it impossible to get your mind around the fact
that he is gone forever. Would the news then really be so easy to
dismiss that around the world, there are scientists in labs pressing
ahead with plans to duplicate a human being?

Ever since the birth of the first baby Louise Brown by in vitro
fertilization in1978, there has been a new breakthrough in science.
Infertile couples around the world have had a new ray of hope. There
are two ways which allow people to have children. One is by in vitro
fertilization in which the man's sperm and the woman's egg are combined
in a laboratory dish, and after fertilization, the resulting embryo is
then transferred to the woman's uterus. This is not an artificial way
to produce. It is merely helping mother ...

Posted by: Ryan Wilkins

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