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Topic 5B - Fertility Treatment & Cloning (Artificial insemination is…
Topic 5B - Fertility Treatment & Cloning
Artificial insemination is of two kinds
(a) AIH, where the donor is the husband;
(b) AID, where the donor is not the husband.
AIH, where the donor is the husband
AIH the only consideration is whether the production of the semen involves the prohibition on 'waste of seed".
AID, where the donor is not the husband
When a husband is incapable of impregnating his wife, they may decide to try artificial insemination – injecting a woman with fertile sperm.
For
It is a natural and laudable desire for a woman to want children.
A married woman would prefer to have children fathered by her husband, but if she can only have children through AID and her husband does not object, why should it be forbidden?
child will at least be as much the husband’s as one the couple might adopt.
Against
Just because the act of sex without ejaculation can equal adultery, it does not follow that the insertion of sperm without sex does not equal adultery.
how can it be morally right for a wife to bear the child of a man other than her husband.
Cloning
There is no clear agreement in the Jew law regarding cloning.
Egg and sperm donations are allowed.
Cloning interferes with the basic process of procreation itself.
"honor your father and mother”
Who is the mother? The case of cloning adds the following complication in the case of cloning a woman, is there a father?