Is artificial insemination unethical?

Question

The are plenty of babies in need of a home and love. If you have the room and love for a child in your life it seems wrong to pay a lot of money to a docotor to make a new kid instead of taking in one that is already looking for a family

Answer 1

Why do you feel it might be unethical? Sure there are plenty of babies who need homes, but that's not to say that women who can't get pregnant on their own shouldn't be able to have the experience of being pregnant.  To each their own....

Answer 2

It is a matter of wanting a child that is part of you versus adoption.  It is also likely easier and cheaper to have artifical insemination as a single person or a L*****n couple than go through the adoption process.

Answer 3

people should be free to do what they want

Answer 4

My husband and I have tried to get pregnant for 5 years with no luck...5 months ago we welcomed a 3 day old foster son into our home with the goal of adopting as much as I love him we are still considering artificial insemination and or invetro...so my point...it doesnt have to be either or

Answer 5

adoption is beautiful to me, i love seeing kids that dont have a home, find a good loving home. I dont think the artificial insemination is unethical because some people want their own baby. I was actually thinking i might have to go this artificial thing. I think its great.

Answer 6

Some people just aren't capable of bonding with a child that they don't feel is their own, they require that bond from birth, it doesn't make it wrong they just aren't the right families for adoption.  Most feel they need to try all their options first before adopting.  Some feel they may not be a good family for adoption for different reasons.  Some have families that will not accept adopted members so they worry about that.

Answer 7

All forms of assisted reproduction are unethical.

Answer 8

Yes, I believe it is.

When someone buys another womans eggs, that is genetically not her child. And the DC children grow up to become adults wanting their information. Currently there is no right to information of who they came from. Currently there aren't even laws enforcing the "storage" of the information for DC people. There aren't any state registries, only personal ones. Birth certificates mention nothing of the "donor egg or sperm" or the "conception" of the child.

Many donor conceived people are coming of age and seeking out their biological parents.

Here are some blogs

http://www.americanadoptioncongress.org/...

http://donorissue.blogspot.com/

http://groups.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuse...

http://www.searchingformyfather.org/

http://t5sdaughter.blogspot.com/

http://www.tangledwebs.org.au/

I realize AI doesn't always involve donated eggs and/or sperm, but thats what I've chosen to focus on for THIS post. I know that the womans husband can AI his own sperm, but I don't know why they'd do that, and not try it out the old fashioned method.

Answer 9

It's my belief that sperm/egg donation along with surrogate motherhood will go through some significant legal/ethical issues while our social mores and laws catch up with the technology.  

I don't think these options are not ethical, in the matter in which the question is phrased.  The same logic about spending time/money on another route of childbearing instead of adoption can be applied to infertility treatments or the monitoring of high risk pregnancies.  

If there is an ethical dilemma, it has more to do with the child being unaware of his/her biological heritage and the issues that could create.  

My opinion.

Answer 10

Both my sister and brother were adopted and I love them just as much as any other person would.

I find it quite unpleasant that someone would suggest that they couldn't love a child that wasn't their own. There are thousands of kids looking for a home and a family. If people just looked past their fears and into the eyes of a needy child, they would realize that an adopted child might not grow in your belly, but they grow in your heart.

Answer 11

i think you are mixing up a few issues into one. Just because someone uses artificial insemination to get pregnant doesn't mean they need to consider the state of the world and the fact that there are plenty of children already born who need homes before they should be able to spend the money, time and effort on having a biological child. Anyone who gets pregnant is going to spend money having that child and raising that child. Why is it somehow more unethical (or unethical at all) to add artificial insemination to the expense? If you have the room and love for a child in your life, why does it seem to you that you need to create one -- with or without artificial insemination? What does that have to do with the love and the room?

Answer 12

NO

Answer 13

Some women want to be able to feel the joys of being pregnant, and creating life......

Answer 14

I guess it could be looked at as unethical in our already overpopulated world. I personnel would never do AI or any other type of medical fertile treatment. If I can not conceive naturally then I feel it was just not meant to be, and I personnel would be ok with that because blood and dna is only so much and is not the most important thing imo.



If a person/couple cant love a adopted child no different then a biological child, then they should not adopt, and the adopted child deserves a parent(s) that will love them no more or less then a biological child. Not all people can love a child that is not of their genetics, I find this very sad but that is the way of the world.

Answer 15

What is unethical...if you want to call it that...is people adopting children from other countries when there are plenty of children here just because it costs a fraction in another country as what it does here.