1. Is IVF morally justified?
15 June 2018
Is IVF morally justified?

2. Fertilising the egg outside the womb
IVF
Fertilising the egg outside the womb
Surrogacy
Implanting of couple’s fertilised egg, or insemination of donor egg in a volunteer woman
Cloning
Copying an embryo and all its characteristics to produce an identical birth
Genetic Engineering
Making change to an embryo’s structure to prevent disability or disease

3. Fertilising the egg outside the womb
Genetic Engineering
Surrogacy
IVF
Cloning
Fertilising the egg outside the womb
Implanting of couple’s fertilised egg, or insemination of donor egg in a volunteer woman
Copying an embryo and all its characteristics to produce an identical birth
Making change to an embryo’s structure to prevent disability or disease

4. List any reasons you can God decides if the process is successful
Reasons Against IVF
Reasons For IVF
List any reasons you can
Roman Catholic
Some Other Christians
Procreation part of sex
Happiness & Love
Process Disrespectful
Technology a gift from God
Adultery
God decides if the process is successful
God’s decision

5. How the pregnancy started is not important
Everyone has the right for two biological parents
Is wrong if you pay for it (surrogacy and IVF)
If couple are married it ………
Spare embryos – should they be destroyed?
A third person being involved

6. Acceptable JUDAISM Egg donated by Jewish woman
Children are considered a blessing
Mitzvot to procreate: ‘be fruitful & multiply’
Adultery if sperm from a donor

7. TASK FINISH FOR HOMEWORK
Write a short-essay to consider whether IVF is morally acceptable. Refer to Judaism in your answer.
FINISH FOR HOMEWORK