Artificial Means of Having Kids


Note how artificial means of reproduction can create problems for the notion of parenthood. The definition of who is the 'parent' becomes blurred when science intervenes. While legislation here appears to be the solution by intervening to clarify the definition, note that it is not a satisfactory solution as the definition is subjective.
There is also the danger of mix up, as the Thomson Fertility Centre case shows in Singapore. It can be very traumatic for the parents who went through IVF to realise that the child is not theirs due to a genes mix up at the lab.
 There is also mention of reproductive tourism at the end of the article. When doing qns on tourism, other than the conventional tourism, you want to also think of eco-tourism, medical tourism, sex tourism, and now reproductive tourism(esp those involving surrogacy).

Sample Qns:
1) Should people be allowed to have children by artificial means? (Cambridge 2012)
2) To what extent is science the solution to all our problems?

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