Explain Christian Attitudes And The Attitudes Of One Other Religion To Fertility Treatments

        Many Christians believe that wasted embryos being used in IVF is not a very good thing according to their religion. As they believe the embryos are alive from the moment of conception and that that is basically the same as abortion. Catholics also believe it is wrong as using these treatments for fertilisation does not use the normal act of sex, which is something they see as an act God created for us to do in marriage to reproduce. Some Catholics also think that children have a right to know their biological parents, but in some forms of fertility treatment like AID and Surrogacy prevent this from happening, so they are banned.

        Muslims can also be divided about what is right and wrong when it comes to infertility treatment. Quite a lot of Muslims believe that every couple should be given the chance to have their own child and are even actually expected to have a family. This means that even if someone is in fertile they still should have the chance of a child, even through infertility treatment. Also, as adoption is banned in Islamic teachings, then IVF and AIH are the only available treatment to help Islamic people have babies even when infertile, because the child can know who its real parents are.

        But there are some aspects of infertility treatments that can be seen as very wrong in the Islamic community. For example, when a woman uses another man’s sperm to make a baby when her husband’s is defective, then this is seen as adultery. As well as this, surrogate motherhood or what is called “hiring a womb” is not allowed since it involves introducing the sperm of a male into the uterus of a woman to whom he is not married and, thus, which is also seen as adultery. It also says that it is wrong for a woman to donate an egg for fertilisation.