Do pro-lifers oppose that? You hear so much about abortions...what about this?
First the fact that both are SOLD....is that ethical....you can't sell a kid....so why can you sell sperm or eggs?
Second....infertility treatments are on the rise....and whether you purchase sperm or an egg....you are essentially playing roulette...if you believe life starts at conception...the union between the two....wouldn't this be highly unethical then......most ppl that go thru fertility treatments are not successful the first time around...sometimes it takes several times to result in a pregnancy.
Is that ethical?
2006-10-29 03:31:43 · 7 answers · asked by kissmybum 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
allan...what question?...I am unaware you asked me a question.
2006-10-29 04:33:59 · update #1
I have always found the whole concept of donor sperm and eggs repugnant. It would drive me nuts to think that that there was a child of mine in the world of which I had no knowledge.
YES, I do find it unethical. I also find the idea of using your womb to incubate a baby for another woman or couple disgusting. Could you imagine carrying this baby for 9 months, going through labor and then just smiling and handing it over to another?
***To everyone who is saying that it doesn't matter because it is not yet a child--I don't get your logic. The whole point is to join it with either egg/sperm to create a child. Therefore, at some point
a child of the donor WILL be walking around on earth, carrying half of the donor(s) DNA. You have helped create a child when you had no intention of caring for it, raising it, or in any way helping with its welfare. I find this very sad.
2006-10-29 03:41:26 · answer #1 · answered by 13th Floor 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't have a problem in the world with selling sperm or eggs. They belong to you - do what you want with them! A solitary haploid cell isn't in any way shape or form a person, so I don't see how this could be an ethical issue. I do question infertility treatments in general though. Is it really all that moral to be spending thousands of dollars to create a child when so many are dying a day for want of parents? Is it right for fertility treatments to occur, when many embryos are created and destroyed for the conception of one child? Anti-abortion activists should look very hard at these procedures -countless embryos die in the petri dish or after unsuccessful implantation in the womb!
2006-10-29 03:48:20 · answer #2 · answered by maguire1202 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I oppose this because humans are NOT an endangered species.. in fact our large numbers will be our own undoing.. we are destroying our enviroment by our sheer numbers.. cities are consuming farm lands at enormous rates
pollution is ruining our skies and water
food will be premium 25 years from now...
people will be given maditory death sentences for age in an attept to curb our numbers and the demands on the food supplies...
we dont need more people so this is totally UNETHICAL from a global view point..
infact having more than 1 or 2 kids is unethical
2006-10-29 03:41:47 · answer #3 · answered by CF_ 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Techincally, a child is not a child until sperm and egg meet. So selling one or the other does not come into the same category as selling a child. Therefore, I do not find it unethical to sell either.
2006-10-29 03:46:23 · answer #4 · answered by JC 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Yes, it is a sperm and an egg...and it is not an individual yet...it has not been conceived in a petri dish and is as ethical as fertility treatments. The bottom line is supply and demand there is a demand for children. How can that be unethical?
2006-10-29 03:35:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
absolutly not, we have sex to produce our own children, not to sell them off or give em off. who ever did it, to make the baby, r the real parents.
if u cant make babies, then adopt one !!!, that took alot of inteligence didnt it?
2006-10-29 03:56:23 · answer #6 · answered by oceanlab 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
When are you going to answer my question?
2006-10-29 03:34:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋