As society moves into the early twenty-first century, there are new technologies emerging everyday. Compared to even ten years ago, the advancements in science and technologies have enabled everyday life activities to become easier, more efficient, and a lot less time consuming. Old procedures have been perfected, or society is very optimistic that they will soon reach these goals. In vitro fertilization is one of those areas which science has developed a procedure which enables people to recreate a genuinely intimate human experience between a husband and a wife into something which can be conducted inside a test tube in a laboratory without any human intimacy. In vitro fertilization is:.
the process of a ripe human egg extracted from the ovary, shortly before it .
would have been released naturally. Next the egg is mixed with the semen .
of the husband or partner, so that fertilization can occur. The fertilized .
egg, once it has started to divide, is then transferred back to the mother's .
uterus. (Warnock, p.29).
This procedure which was first successfully completed in July 1978 and has still only reached, twenty plus years later, a success rate of 10-20% per egg implanted (Warnock, p.4). This procedure has had a long journey to where it is today. Not only did it take years for the procedure to be successful, since its inception into society in the late 1970's, it has raised many moral issues which some people do not even consider any longer since this procedure is legal according to civil law. In vitro fertilization creates many debates within society on the immoral acts created through this process. In vitro fertilization contains a form of abortion, conflicts with parts of the Natural Law and the right of marriage, it disrupts the proper foundation of a family, and it is a type of eugenics. It is an immoral act and theses reasons as stated will provide facts which will prove in vitro fertilization is one technological advancement which should never been introduced into society.
