Religion and Medical Issues: Describe the treatments available to help infertile couples have children

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Katie Lane

 Religion and Medical Issues: Describe the treatments available to help infertile couples have children

      For many people the purpose of marriage is procreation. However for some people this is difficult. One in ten women have problems conceiving children today in Britain and two million people are infertile. Infertility is when a man or women is unable to conceive a baby. There are many different reasons why some women can’t conceive children naturally such as genetic reasons that have been passed down though their genes. They might have caught a sexually transmitted infection that has led to infertility. Or they might be physically unable by being too old to bear a child themselves or have already have gone though the menopause. Infertility can also occur when there is a low sperm count.

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      However, there are many treatments available such as in – vitro fertilisation (IVF) which is when an egg from the woman is fertilised outside the womb using either her partners or a donor’s sperm and then is replaced in the womb. Basically IVF involves collecting eggs from the ovary, putting then together with sperm fertilising an egg and putting the embryo or embryos that result into the womb. Artificial insemination by the male partner (AIH) is a different type of infertile treatment. It’s where the husband, or male partner’s sperm is inserted into his wife by ...

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