IVF Debate

While I do see how those procedures and tests create a safe environment for the couple to undergo the procedure, they still do not change the fact that IVF only has a 30% success rate and After thoroughly reading A Banjeree"s article "An Insight into the Ethical Issues Related to In Vitro Fertilization" (https://ispub.com...), I found that advances in IVF technology create major ethical dilemmas and greatly enhance the disadvantages of undergoing IVF. Banjeree states that, "the fact that a certain procedure is technologically possible does not make it ethically right". Because of the increasing popularity of this procedure, more and more ethical debates and questions are popping up, and they need to be taken into consideration. First of all, the most obvious ethical issue arises with the fact that IVF is unnatural, and goes against the natural way to reproduce. IVF involves messing with a process that humans should not mess with; it is involving science into something that should be naturally-occurring. Artificially-producing children is unnatural and unethical (and is very similar to cloning). The production of life and the control of life and death are things that are meant to be left to G-d, or a higher power. Humans should not take control of reproduction, for they are not above G-d, and only G-d should control that. IVF, as you can tell, raises many ethical issues in regard to religion. Also, when it comes to dealing with embryos produced by IVF for scientific research, utilizing human life simply as a means of research "hampers the dignity of human life". Human life is a very special thing, and it should not be messed with by humans nor abused/taken for granted by science. Another ethical issue that arises through in vitro fertilization is child vs. commodity/possession. If children are reproduced artificially and unnaturally, they are seen as more of objects and possessions, rather than children (this also goes back to the cost of in vitro fertilization and putting a price on human life). There has been research into the effect of IVF on family bonding, and it has been found that, "the IVF process actually results in a "dilution of parenthood". Mental bonding arises from physical, mental, and emotional contact between parent and child, and that connection gets lost when children are reproduced artificially, unnaturally, and outside of the womb. Banjeree, in his article, asked the question, "Would the development of the family and thus the progress of society be weakened by IVF? Have the potential effects of such far-reaching changes in the process of human generation upon children, parents and society been evaluated?" Science is assuming a more predominant role in the creation of human offspring, and is diluting the notion of humans as "procreating beings". There are also ethical issues that arise if too many fertilized eggs are created; what happens to the rest of them? Some couples choose to freeze them, which raises ethical issues in and of itself. Humans are taking control of life and death by controlling the continuation of the process of life through freezing and unfreezing these embryos. If the embryos are in excess, some couples may choose to donate them to research (downplaying the dignity of human life), or some choose to discard them. The discarding of embryos is murder; life starts at fertilization/conception, and the discarding of embryos is killing human life. Which one of your children would you kill? That is a question that couples should not have to face, and is similar in nature to abortion.