bosnia

Although the story was interesting, it needed to be told as a magazine article and not a book. There just wasn't enough story to fill a whole book. It was extremely redundant and slow moving. The main point of the story was what prompted me to read it - what happens when an infertility clinic mixes up frozen embryos and gives them to the wrong parents. How should everyone respond? What moral/ethical obligation does the receiving family have to preserve the life of the implanted embryo who is not their biological child? What rights do the biological parents have? Fortunately for this family, their story ends well. And while I applaud them for trying to address the ethical issues their story highlights, I think they could have done even more in this regard. They seem to advocate in vitro fertilization, even though they know it raises huge ethical issues, such as what to do with frozen embryos the parents don't want to use, how many eggs to fertilize, what makes a "viable" embryo, etc. I find it hard to believe that the authors can still advocate for IVF, even after all they've been through and what they learned. I also find it a bit shameful that they didn't better educate themselves about the process and their choices before they moved ahead. I think that's one of the clear dilemmas of IVF, that parents so eager to have children may make uninformed decisions, and infertility clinics aren't always diligent to help parents understand their choices and risk losing clients in the process.

2022-11-14 16:22