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    The document discusses the moral issue of artificial insemination. It begins by explaining that procreation has traditionally been understood as resulting from sexual union between a man and woman. It then introduces artificial insemination as a technique where sperm is provided through masturbation and injected into a woman's reproductive tract. The document outlines the various techniques and types of artificial insemination, including using sperm from the husband or a donor. It considers justifications for artificial insemination and debates whether it is moral by examining arguments about violating natural law and the purpose of sexuality. Ethical theories like natural law, situational ethics, and Kant's principle of autonomy are applied to evaluate the practice.

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    The document discusses the moral issue of artificial insemination. It begins by explaining that procreation has traditionally been understood as resulting from sexual union between a man and woman. It then introduces artificial insemination as a technique where sperm is provided through masturbation and injected into a woman's reproductive tract. The document outlines the various techniques and types of artificial insemination, including using sperm from the husband or a donor. It considers justifications for artificial insemination and debates whether it is moral by examining arguments about violating natural law and the purpose of sexuality. Ethical theories like natural law, situational ethics, and Kant's principle of autonomy are applied to evaluate the practice.

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    The document discusses the moral issue of artificial insemination. It begins by explaining that procreation has traditionally been understood as resulting from sexual union between a man and woman. It then introduces artificial insemination as a technique where sperm is provided through masturbation and injected into a woman's reproductive tract. The document outlines the various techniques and types of artificial insemination, including using sperm from the husband or a donor. It considers justifications for artificial insemination and debates whether it is moral by examining arguments about violating natural law and the purpose of sexuality. Ethical theories like natural law, situational ethics, and Kant's principle of autonomy are applied to evaluate the practice.

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    THE MORAL ISSUE OF

    ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION
    Both naturally and traditionally, procreation
    has been understood as human conception
    resulting from the sexual union of a man and
    woman. Procreation always presupposes sex and
    vice-versa. This traditional, naturalistic outlook
    has also molded our thinking and moral values.
    We usually argue, for instance, that sex without
    procreation is immoral, insofar as thenatural
    purpose of the reproductive organs, so we are
    taught, is to reproduce or procreate
    The discovery of the infertile period in the
    menstrual cycle, however, has injected a
    new consideration into the ethical
    evaluation of acts that deliberately
    exclude procreation from sex. On the
    twenty-eight day cycle of a woman, only
    about six days are fertile and and twenty-
    two days are supposedly infertile.
    Artificial Insemination
    - refers to an assisted method of reproduction in
    which the sperm is provided typically by means
    of masturbation and is injected into the
    womans reproductive tract through a catheter.
    How AI performed?
    Techniques of the procedure
    1. A medication is administered to active egg development
    2. The semen is obtained by means of masturbation after a
    designated few days of refraining from ejaculation
    3. The seminal processing follows which is characterized by
    washing and purification of the semen specimen at the
    laboratory
    4. The purified and segregated male germ cell is finally
    inseminated or injected either into the cervix as in
    cervical insemination
    Three types of AI
    1. Homologous Insemination
    - commonly called as artificial insemination by husband
    - in which the semen is obtained from the husband himself
    2. Heterologous Insemination
    - commonly called as artificial insemination by donor
    - a technique in which the semen is acquired from a donor other than the
    husband.
    3. Artificial Insemination
    - procedure simply takes place between the unmarried man and woman
    who may not regard marriage act as the only licit means of transmitting life
    Justification for AIH
    1. husbands impotence
    2. anatomical defects of husbands urethra
    3. deficient sperm count or oligospermia
    4. types of spinal injury, and certain physical and
    psychological problems that hinder normal intercourse
    5. some husband undergo vasectomy for contraceptive
    purposes have their semen stored eventual use in the
    future
    6. physiological obstructions in the genital apparatus of
    the wife
    Justifications for AID
    1. the husband is sterile
    2. the husband is carrier of a hereditary
    disease
    3. the wife oocytes are defective, or she may
    also be a carrier of certain genetically
    linked disorders
    4. the wifes fallopian tubes are severely
    damaged by gonorrhea
    Is Artificial Insemination is
    Moral?
    Transgression of the Will of God Expressed in the Law of
    Nature
    1. Arbitrary Exclusion of the Marital Act from
    Procreation
    - the natural devised means of transmitting life
    embedded within the reproductive faculty of both husband and
    wife is no other than the marital act.
    2. Distortion of the Meaning and Purpose of
    Sexuality
    - the meaning and purpose of sexuality are deeply
    inscribe within its natural expressions.
    Application of Ethical
    Theories
    Natural law ethics/ Roman Catholic
    . Immoral
    Situational ethics\
    . Moral
    . Our right to overcome childlessness
    Utilitarianism
    . moral since it produces more happiness
    Pragmatism
    . Moral since it is practical, beneficial and useful and workable
    Emmanuel Kant
    . Principle of autonomy
    . It is moral only if and only if the couple it is voluntary and mutually
    agreed

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