Artificial Insemination and the Rights of Women, Men, and Children Essa

Women have adamantly battled for political and social reproductive rights since, in exceptional artificial insemination, have become mainstream phenomena in the recent decade with a focus on rights of women. In fact, doctors have experimented with the procedure for nearly a century. However, with the womens liberation movement of the 1970s, physician-assisted and self-insemination has become more and more ordinary among heterosexual career women and lesbians. The Origins of Artificial Insemination She was a Quaker. The wife of a merchant. The infertility patient of Dr. William Pancoast. She was a woman whose name was never recorded. Dr. Pancoast, a prof at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, had already experimentd and tested her numerous times. Finally, he discovered that she was fertile and that the problem was her husbands There were no sperm. Pancoast (or maybe it was one of his students) had an idea. He called her in. He just wanted to examine her once more, he told h er. The woman lay on the table as she had been told to do. Pancoasts six medical students-all young men- stood around her body. Pancoast anesthetized the woman with chloroform. He took the receptacle into which one of his students had masturbated. With a hard rubber syringe, he inserted the students semen into her uterus. He then plugged her cervix with gauze. When she awoke, he did non tell her what he had done. He never told her. Nine months later, she bore a son. It was 1884. This was the first reported human artificial insemination with donor semen. It was a rape. (Corea, 12) As explained by the above excerpt from The Mother Machine, artificial insemination is not a recent technological breakthrough. The procedure among huma... ...n under the notion that reproductive technologies pass on ensure conception of a perfect child. If the child is born with a congenital defect or is of the wrong sex, the parents present feelings of disappointment, which is often reflected in the rea ring of the child. (Blank) Moreover, parents treat their children as more fragile that other children in their nuclear family conceived by natural means, and tend to be overprotective of him or her. Works Cited Blank, Robert. Human Reproduction, Emerging Technologies, and Conflicting Rights Congressional Quarterly cap D.C., 1995. Corea, Gena. The Mother Machine Reproductive Technologies from Artificial Insemination to Artificial Wombs New York harpist & Row, 1985. Daniels, Ken R. Information Sharing in Semen Donation The Views of Donors cordial Science & Medicine v. 44 no5 (March 1997) p. 673-80