In egg donation, the procedure remains the same as In-vitro-fertilisation, the eggs are gathered from the woman's ovaries and mixed with the man's sperm in a dish in the laboratory, after this procedure has been done and the egg has been fertilised, the fertilised egg is placed back into the mother’s womb, apart from the eggs have been donated instead of the mother (the mother may have no eggs).
Embryo donation, is when the sperm and the egg are given from unknown donors. When both the sperm and the egg have been donated to the mother then the egg is fertilised through IVF treatment, in IVF treatment the eggs are gathered from the woman's ovaries and mixed with the man's sperm in a dish in the laboratory, after this procedure has been done and the egg has been fertilised, the fertilised egg is placed back into the mother’s womb.
Surrogacy is when either the egg and the sperm of a husband and wife or the egg or sperm of husband or wife of an unknown donor, are fertilised by IVF treatment this is done by the eggs that are gathered from the woman's ovaries and mixed with the man's sperm in a dish in the laboratory, after this procedure has been done and the egg has been fertilised, the fertilised egg is placed back into the mother’s womb, after the procedure of IVF treatment the baby is then handed to the husband and wife after the baby’s birth.
Most Catholics and various Christians believe that IVF and AIH are wrong and should not occur. They believe that having IVF and AIH treatment is an unnatural sexual act e.g. masturbation. Also many Catholics believe that AID treatment is an act of adultery, because you are theoretically having sex with someone other than your official partner. Roman Catholics and various Christians also believe that the use of embryo technology is prohibited, they think this because god meant for all humans to reproduce from sex, but sex does not occur when fertilisation takes place. Also roman Catholics and mainly some Christians believe that the treatment of IVF is similar to abortion, they believe it is similar to abortion as IVF treatment needs the embryos to be produced, and after the embryos have been produced most of the embryos are thrown away not to be used again, this method of IVF is similar to abortion and most Christians and mainly all the Roman Catholics believe that abortion is wrong and so is IVF treatment because they both use the same techniques.
Other Christians believe that IVF and AIH is an acceptable procedure to go ahead with. They believe that IVF is acceptable because even though the treatment itself does not include the husband and wife having sex, the sperm and the egg are both from the husband and wife, so therefore no rule in Christianity has been mainly broken, apart from the minor fact the husband and wife have not officially had sex. Mainly Christians who think that it is acceptable to have IVF and AIH treatments believe that it is suitable to give couples children through the use of technology, however some Christians are doubtful of the different techniques available to have children, but they still find them acceptable, because they issue problems in later life for the children who want to know the donors information.
Some Sikhs believe that it is unacceptable to proceed with IVF treatment; Sikhs believe that the IVF treatment is very similar to abortion. In the method of IVF treatment the eggs need to be fertilised and the eggs which are not fertilised get thrown away, to Sikhs this is similar to abortion as the egg’s life has been ended/killed.
Other Sikhs believe that the method of IVF treatment and AIH treatment is adequate. They believe that IVF and AIH are suitable because technology can provide couples with children and as long as the sperm and the egg are both from the husband and the wife it is ok to go along with the treatment. The Sikhs who think that it is acceptable to have children using the methods of IVF and AIH, also think that the procedure of IVF and AIH is not similar to abortion in anyway. Sikhs believe this because for abortion to take place the embryo needs to be in the womb to live, and in this case it isn’t so there becomes no similarity between abortion and IVF and AIH.
Some Christians do not agree with transplant surgery either using living organs from dead people or the transplanting of single organs from living people. They think that it is playing god, and to Christians that is a great sin.
However, some Christians believe that it is acceptable to use organs from a living person. They believe this is acceptable to give a living person’s organs, because giving your organs shows that you love your neighbour. Some Christians find it not right to give a dead person’s organs to somebody else. They believe this because, the poor might start to exploit themselves by selling their organs, which is prohibited in the bible.
Most Sikhs agree with transplants, they think that it is fine to use the organs of dead or living donors. Sikhs believe this because they think that organ donation is a sewa (service), which is vital for Sikhs as it adds to their karma when they die. Most Sikhs believe that when you’re dead the body has no use at all, so you may give it away to organ donation.
A few Sikhs do not agree with organ donation because of the issues that it can bring up. Some Sikhs consider organ donation wrong as it can emphasise poor people to sell their organs to rich people. Also a problem may consist if someone is dead, the heart is removed before it has stopped beating, and also the pressure is on the living to donate organs.
I think some people might agree with this statement because some religious people think that it is right for only god to interfere with our genes. Some religious people such as Sikhs believe that it is only right for god to interfere with our genes because, altering a persons genes could create different karma towards someone, in other words it could change the cycle of samsara, the birth and rebirth (karma) of a Sikh human being.
For example some Christians believe that the statement is wrong because not only god can interfere with our genes but human can as well. Some Christians believe this because, they think that finding cures for genes is similar to finding drugs, some Christians also believe that Jesus showed Christians to find a cure for any disease, which now can be done through the alteration through our genes by humans and not only god.
However, I disagree with this statement because I believe that if we can find cures for diseases by altering people genes we can prevent suffering in the world, and that is what all religions hope for. I also believe that we should alter our genes to only cure disease, but not to create the perfect human being because this would be a bad thing to happen and could cause change in someone’s karma. I believe this statement is wrong because there is a big difference in creating people compared to creating cells.
Therefore I think this statement is wrong.