Nursing, In-Vitro Fertilization and Cryobiology

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This paper examines how today's medical science is capable of things only imagined in the past and how one of these is to freeze a man's sperm and impregnate a woman with it at some future time. It looks at how this practice raises many ethical issues as far as the legal professions are concerned, primarily informed consent, ownership of the sperm and many other issues. It shows how it also raises issues for the medical profession as well and examines the role of the nurse in relation to her ethical obligations and the moral issues imposed upon her concerning this tricky moral issue.

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"The role of the clinical nurse in practice is that of a patient advocate (ANCI, 2002). She cannot let their own feelings interfere with the professional relationship between herself and the patient. Let us consider another case. Soldiers in the US who are getting ready to deeply of the Persian Gulf are depositing their sperm in a sperm bank to be used to impregnate their wives or other designated person in the event that they do not return from war (Reitman, 2003). This is a very different case from a legal and nursing standpoint as the dead person has made legal arrangements for this to happen. In this case, performing the procedure violates no law, and it is obvious what the wishes of the dead person were. This is very different than the case being explored where to perform the procedure directly violates a court order."

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