artificial insemination
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Artificial Insemination. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGuUv3u92KI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCdIiLLF0vw&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO27B563GYg&feature=related. Artificial Insemination. Homologous: Sperm comes from significant other - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Artificial Insemination• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
VGuUv3u92KI• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
qCdIiLLF0vw&feature=related• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
eO27B563GYg&feature=related
Artificial Insemination• Homologous: Sperm comes from
significant other
• Heterologous: Sperm comes from a donor
Heterologous Insemination• Consent: Husbands consent
required by some states– Avoid a “wrong” to the husband– Could sustain a suit for damages
Frozen Human Eggs• What to do with the leftovers?• Over 500,000 embryos are in
cryopreservation in the US• What do we consider these embryos?
Catholic Church• To create a child outside of conjugal
love is immoral• Heterologous insemination
considered adultery• Is this a bridge to use of embryonic
stem cells, use of cloning???
Multiple Births• Twin Births: 137,217; 33.2 per
1,000 live births• Triplets: 5,905• Quadruplets: 255• Quintuplets and higher order: 80
• About 4 million births/year
Fetal Mortality Rate• Twins: 16 per 1,000 live births (2.7
times higher than sigletons)• Triplets or Higher: 27.18 per 1,000
live births (5 times higher than singletons)
Risk to Mom & Babies• Medical complications• Pre term delivery• Growth restriction• Extreme high cost• Preeclampsia• Anomalies• Abruption• Cord accidents
Selective Reduction• Pregnancy of three or more fetuses• Selectively reduce pregnancy by
one or more fetuses• Improve survival possibility of
pregnancy
Nadya Suleman• Gave birth to Octuplets Jan 2009• 2nd set of octuplets born alive in the
US• 2001 IVF treatments, 5 pregnancy, 6
kids• remaining embryos
Nadya Suleman• Believed that disposing of the
embryos was abortion• Claimed to have been implanted
with 6– Found that 12 were implanted– The norm 2-3– Dr. lost his medical license
Nadya Suleman• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
r8pkQ8PSkwE
Just for fun• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
mZH_4j1_lM0&feature=related