Reproductive Technologies

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births because of the high number eggs that must be used in order to up the potential of “making a baby”. Many of these couples have options of selected abortion to limit the risk to mother and child. These issues have many feminists and doctors having heated arguments over whether or not to abolish, regulate or just let the infertility drugs go on there course.
The first article that I read and analyzed was written by Janice G. Raymond, she argues that all should be banned. Janice argues that the IVF and surrogate mother hood (the implantation of another couples fetus into another woman to carry the pregnancy full term) “are a form of violence against woman because they technologically ravage women’s bodies.” She continues to argue that the only way to protect the women from the “abuse and exploitation is to ban the technology”. She asks many questions; Does the natural right to procreate give you the right to chemically mistreat your body until you finally spit out a baby? Are ...

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