M4 Discussion: Families, Adoption, and Assisted Reproductive Technologies

Student Name Professor Course Date M4 Discussion: Families, Adoption, and Assisted Reproductive Technologies Pros and Cons of ARTs/NRTs Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) and New Reproductive Technologies (NRTs) are impressive and helpful but also have some puts and gets. On the positive side, ARTs and NRTs assist individuals and couples, particularly those struggling with infertility, to start a family and to have biological children. They offer opportunities for one to create a FAMILY, for example, for gays and lesbians and single parents. However, the disadvantages are shortcoming cost, availability and full and emotional impact on those who undergo the procedure (Speier 109). It is also unethical to buy and sell reproduction and to entrust women, especially in the Third World, where surrogacy and egg donation may be presented as financially lucrative careers rather than empowered choices. Shaping Definitions of Family The measures that ARTs and NRTs adopt deviate from the standard ‘nuclear family’ since the former make families out of people to who they...