Then 18 months later, Australia had a successful IVF baby. In 1981, the United States had there first successful IVF baby. Today, at least one IVF child is being born everyday. Many ethical questions have been raised for using in vitro fertilization. Greatest among them is the fear of experimentation with human fetuses.
Related questions are the wasting of sperm and eggs during procedures and experimentation.
One ethical question is the role a surrogate mother should be able to play. A surrogate mother is a women who carries a child on behalf of another women, who will become the child's social mother. If the surrogate mother uses her egg, she will be the genetic and childbearing mother. If the eggs used come from the social mother, then the surrogate mother will only be the childbearing mother. Other complications arise from the use of sperm which may come from the husband of the woman or from another man.