Posted by: createtosave on: June 15, 2009
I feel that I had been brought to this world, just only for one sole purpose, that is — to donate my blood making cells and to save my brother Charlie. Sometimes my parents are so nice to me, that I feel that they do so just so that I would agree to donate my [...]
Posted by: createtosave on: June 15, 2009
I am very sure nobody in the world would want to be struck with a rare disorder such as mine. It is certainly unfortunate, but I am still able to survive through daily medications and frequent blood transfusions. When my parents proposed to attempt vitro fertilization with new screening techniques to produce another baby – [...]
Posted by: createtosave on: June 14, 2009
Our son Charlie suffers from a rare disorder resulted from genetic mutation that prevents his body from producing red blood cells, causing him to rely on daily medications and frequent transfusions. And even though Charlie could live during such close medical care, he would not be able to lead a normal life like other children [...]
Posted by: createtosave on: June 14, 2009
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 [...]
Posted by: createtosave on: June 14, 2009
The decision that Charlie’s parents have come up with to use in vitro fertilization to have another child but use new screening techniques to see which embryo will be most able to donate blood-making cells to Charlie has brought along many implications of moral values. This decision of creating another human life with the express [...]
Posted by: createtosave on: June 14, 2009
In order to produce an other child with desired traits just to save Charlie, the Whitaker family will have to undergo IVF , which indirectly produces a designer baby.
The term IVF refers to in vitro fertilisation, which is a process where the egg cell are fertilised by sperm cell outside the womb. The fertilised egg [...]
