In the 20th century, technology has developed so radically that
humans have developed many other ways of having children . Sperm donation is one such method and is,
which is the provision or donation by a man of his sperm, with the intention
that it be used to impregnate a woman who is not usually the man's sexual
partner, in order to produce a child. Sperm banks help those who want to have a
baby by allowing a doctor to inject a syringe of sperm from an unknown man into
their uterus. Whether or not sperm banks should exist for these people or not
is a controversial issue. While some people are in favor of sperm banks, others are against it.
It is argued that
sperm banks can supply a continuation
of desirable traits .
Proponents put this idea forward because they think that people can choose what kind of child they should have and thanks
to this, women can raise their child however they want. That means they are
actually unethically designing their own babies by choosing a sperm containing
genetic information that they wish their babies to own, which raises the issues
of designer babies. However, this is not a proper process. This process can
best be compared to an industrial process. Women who are single and worried that they might never marry
and have a family and want to be mothers apply to sperm
banks and then they get pregnant. This process is just like the stages of production. The forming or building of a family should
remain a natural process because this is the only emotion that has remained pure. If we lose it, we lose
our humanity; we become robots.
Some people claim that women should be independent from men when having
a baby. Thanks to sperm banks, women can
have babies alone.
As a result, they do not need men in order to have babies. However, this kind of thinking can
present some problems like legal and psychological problems. For instance, one
of these problems is that the sperm donor may want to someday know the children
that he fathered, which is unlikely but still possible. Some biological fathers
claim their parental right over the child that they cause to be borne by offering their sperm, even if the mothers
have other men as their husbands.Another issue is that the donor-conceived
children need a father who is biological so as to know who their father is, but
those children have no right to know this. Therefore, having donor-conceived
children requires many extreme responsibilities and these children’s life is not easy/ is not as
easy as other children’s. Besides, sometimes, if two donor-conceived children might fall in
love with one another, they may turn out to be siblings, which is an awful situation. These children would be
shattered. One has to think twice before going down this path.
To conclude, every woman may want to have a baby, some of
them don’t want men in their lives. Nevertheless, I am of the opinion that sperm banks are a great new way of giving birth to babies
for only people who are infertile because women who are single cannot assume all the responsibilities
and children who have only
a mother have difficulties living properly. Every child should be raised
by parents who include both
the mother and the
father and should know both the mother and the father. If sperm banks supply
all women who want to have a baby with the opportunity to do so, we will lose
our spontaneity.
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