It's already May!!! Where had my April gone? I'm a little bit behind the schedule of my assignments. I have to speed up my work.
I started bioethics assignment-2. Although I don't know yet whether assignment-1 passed or not, I'm going to write with wishful thinking.
The title of the short thesis is about issue of reproductive technology. There are many opinions about reproducing babies with new technology. First of all, I have to understand some different type of view, such as view of legal, view of ethical, and view of human rights.
These views will work to create new my thought. But I want to think first about view of sacred. Whenever thinking over childbirth, I feel sacred. Because, there are some risk of the life for both mother and baby, and there are big moment the baby can start new own life.
In my opinion, it is most important we feel sacred about childbirth. So, whatever technology advance, top priority for birth is to save mother's life and to protect baby's right. Especially it is very big issue that the baby will face an identity crisis. I want to pay the most attention to the baby's life.
I mean, we don't have to pay attention whether there are the rights and happy for legal parent. I think legal parent should not state human right if someone's life involve risks.
I think we have to awake philanthropism in our society. It is unhappy for us if we think we want to bring up only own babies. Babies were not born for parents. Babies are treasure of human. I want to clean out the consciousness that it is unhappy for married couple if they don't have own babies.
So, my bottom line is this. If there are husband's sperm and wife's egg and uterus together, I don't against new reproductive technologies.
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I totally agree with the opinion that it is not unhappy if married couple don’t have their own babies.
But another problem of reproductive technology is to select favorite sperm despite mother can be reproductive.
This article reminds me of 試験管ベビー named Dolon. He doesn’t know his father. His father got Nobel prize. So his mother selected the sperm. Dolon has IQ180 and graduated from Harvard university. It satisfies his mother. But Dolon looks not to be happy. He is in agony due to his birth. The contrast between Dolon and his mother was impressive for me.
But I can’t oppose it in spite of his agony. Because I think that mothers originally have the tendency to select spouses. There are many woman selecting spouses due to his ability for her future babies. And also there are many children who don’t have their father. I can’t understand the difference between such children and Dolon.
In case of Dolon, the problem is not reproductive technology, but due to reproductive technology, he is always criticized behind his back.
But reproductive technology has risk for mother and baby….
It’s very difficult probrem.
Good try, koto! Despite a difficult issue, you could explain how you think about that in clearly. And I'm glad you understand how I think.
I tried to reply in English, but it was too hard to explain in English this issue. Sorry, in Japanese.
まず、kotoの話の母親のケースについてですが、私は彼女の気持ちを理解する気になれません。また、より良い子孫を残したいという願望を満たすために精子バンクたるものがあることにも納得できていません。それは、血統証付きのペットを望むのと同じ感覚の、人間の見栄に満ち溢れたものとしか思えないからです。
生殖技術の中で、不妊の人々が子を授かる手段としては、今のところ人工授精、体外受精、卵提供、貸し腹、代理母などがあります。貸し腹のケースでは、Xの精子と、母親の卵を受精させて、さらに産む女性が異なる場合が存在します。これが許されるならば、出生率低下が問題になっている先進国で、裕福な女性が、自分の卵とIQが高い男性との精子を体外受精させて、契約金の安い発展途上国の女性の胎内で育てて産んでもらうというケースだって珍しくなくなります。途上国での臓器移植などの問題と同じで、人間の欲は限がないのですから、金の力で既成事実を積み上げて行けば、この功利主義社会では、何でもありになっていくような怖さがあります。ですが現代の風潮としては、自分の子供を授かりたいという人の自由意志ばかりに注目が集まり、産まれてくる子の一生の重みや、出産に伴う命の危険などは軽く扱われているように思います。
よって、ブログに書いた通り、私の意見は、夫の精子と妻の卵による妻の胎内からの出産のみに、生殖技術を利用すべきとの考えになったのですが、かなり悩み考えさせられるのは、夫婦で愛し合っていて、自分の子宮だけに問題がある場合、技術的には子を授かることができるのだから、諦める気にはなれないというケースです。心底、愛する人の子を抱きたいと思う気持ち、それを実現できる技術が既にあるという事実、それなのに諦めるべきなのか？そこに実に大きな葛藤が生まれることは、同じ女性として想像に難しくないです。
それでも、最終的に私の思うところとしては、第三者の女性（例え健康で出産経験豊富などの条件がそろっていたとしても）を介入させるべきではないと、悩みながらも、今のところ結論付けています。でも、本当に難しい問題で、当分悩みそうなので、またもや課題の提出が遅れそうです。。。
Thank you for your Japanese comment!.I can understand your opinion very well. I want to retry to think about this plobrem.
Good words.
Hi Reina. Thank you for leaving your mark!
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