Procreation Technology

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This paper examines how past research on procreation technology has provided numerous opportunities for infertile couples, or individuals wishing to become pregnant, a chance at creating life. It looks at how, in thirty-five years, the technology has advanced from extra-corporeal test tube babies to major breakthroughs in stem cell research, frozen embryo transfer, and cloning. It also discusses how the ethical implications of this research continues to be at the heart of many heated debates. It examines how society has changed in light of this technology.

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"Procreation technology is the science, research and technology associated with creating human life. The first extra-corporeal, outside the human body, fertilization of human egg by human sperm in occurred in 1969 (Garrett, 1999). Until this time all human procreation had taken place inside a woman's body. Dr. Robert Edwards conducted research for almost ten years (and one hundred and three attempts) before the first successful test-tube baby was born in 1978; her name is Louis Brown. Since this time the field of procreation technology has exploded. The more science reveals about the human body the more we are able to manipulate and control aspects of procreation believed possible only in science fiction novels."

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