Creating a baby using in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) to save the life of another, definitely has both its advantages and disadvantages.

Because IVF is a reproductive technology in which the egg is taken out of the woman’s body and joined with the sperm outside, thus the advantages of using this method, is that the parents are able to choose what kind of baby that you are going to give birth to. With IVF, Charlie’s parents would be able to screen the embryos to see which would be most suitable to donate blood-making cells to Charlie and thus, which would be the embryos that would be chosen to be implanted, brought to term and save Charlie’s life.

On the other hand, this method would lead to a few moral issues. Firstly, who would be the ones who would make the decision, is it the parents of the child or is it the child that has been born using the IVF method? Some people may think that it is the parent’s decision since the parents are the ones who gave birth to the child and thus have the rights to donate the blood making cells to Charlie. However, some people may think that the blood making cells belongs to the child that has been born by the IVF method, thus he/she has the rights to object to the donation. In my opinion, this decision should be made by the child himself/herself. If he/she agrees to donating his/her blood making cells to Charlie, that would be great. But if he/she objects, then the parents should respect the child’s decision and perhaps wait for people who are kind enough to donate their cells to Charlie.