IVF Debate

Though IVF is proven to be effective, there are still legal issues surrounding the ownership of eggs. Egg freezing can present intricate legal issues that require the woman"s full attention. After researching laws or guidelines and consulting with an attorney, she should ensure that any agreements signed at the fertility clinic are in line with her wishes in regards to her eggs and estate. She should specify whether the eggs are to be entrusted to members of her family, destroyed or donated to an egg bank or facility for scientific research. If the recipient of her frozen eggs produces a child with them, she should specify whether her estate will make provisions for the care of the child (Legal Issues of Egg Freezing). According to John Robertson, in his journal "Egg Freezing and Egg Banking: Empowerment and Alienation in Assisted Reproduction," Due to the way egg ownership contract operate, as mentioned in the first paragraph for my argument this round, when a women should specify how the eggs should be handled in an event of her death, but newly mentions of "failure to pay storage fees, or other contingencies." This allows them to have an option to write a check on their egg account, which make themselves as payee. With this I will present my own closing statement about IVF, while it is an appealing solution for couples who are unable to reproduce through normal means, as well as same sex couples who are seeking children, adoption appears to be an arguably better solution. Even though IVF is cheaper than adoption on the surface, with basic IVF costing close to twelve thousand dollars to as much as fifteen thousand or more, compared to cost of adoption which can be anywhere from five thousand dollars to as much as forty thousand. IVF can represent a better overall value as a bargain, but success rate can vary due to many cycles that are required to achieve full term pregnancy. Older women with the age between 38-40 can range from about 15 to 25% for their success rates, according to the chart of US national average data on success rates per IVF cycle by female age for 2012, with women aged over 40 having something as low as 6 percent. Following is the potential medical complications that can increase the costs. Laparoscopy used to extract eggs can pose as risks related to the anesthesia, with risks of infection, bleeding, damage to the bowel, bladder, or a blood vessel, surgical costs arise from this can be another addition to the problem. I hereby conclude that IVF is costly and pose as a great potential for physical damage. Another thing I would like to address for my argument, moreover due to ethical reasons, adoption is a more logical reason due to the presence of many orphans in the United States even without taking account of the numbers of orphans worldwide. According to SOS Children's Villages on their Worldwide children's statistics, in 2014, 702,000 experienced "maltreatment", examples being "neglect, physical, and sexual abuse," during the same year, 1,546 died from abuse and neglect, 21% of children in the US were living in poverty, 415,129 children in foster care, 22,000 young adults were aged out of foster care with no permanent families, which make them more likely to suffer unemployment followed by homelessness. I encourage the voters to think of this while making their decision. It was a pleasure to do this debate, ye.