ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION

Artificial Insemination



Artificial Insemination

Introduction

Artificial Insemination is one the common phenomenon that is been used not a days. This term is also known as "donor insemination" or "alternative insemination", "artificial insemination" is the process of injecting sperm into a woman's uterus or cervix during ovulation for the purpose of achieving pregnancy. The oldest and one of the most widely forms of assisted reproductive technology, artificial insemination may be carried out under medical supervision or independently, using artificial insemination with husband's sperm (AIH) or from the artificial insemination, by a donor (AID), both known and unknown. Most "artificial insemination” is carried out under medical supervision, although self-insemination is also practiced. The advocates of Artificial Insemination have also faced much opposition from the human rights groups and the activists.

In Christianity

In Christianity Artificial Insemination is not been advocated and if we follow the bible, it says that the child is a gift from the God. If the God is not giving u a child, u cannot maneuver the situation in your favor and get a child. This technology is no doubt helpful those who are not parents by nature but this in not supported the religion.

History of Artificial Insemination

The first human experiments with AIH in the United States by gynecologist J Marion Sims in the 1860s were reported. Although only one of the six women he reported inseminating due to cervical abnormalities achieved pregnancy, none achieved a live birth. Using AID for male infertility was first practiced in 1884 by Philadelphia doctor William Pan coast, which was arranged for his patient, a wealthy woman married to an infertile male, to be anesthetized under pretext and inseminated with the sperm of a medical student. According to the report, which was not published until after the turn of the century, the woman was never told how she became pregnant? Relatively few cases of artificial insemination were reported prior to the 1930s, and most were not successful because of an inaccurate understanding of women's fertility. It was not until the 1940s that AID was cited in the popular press as responsible for a number of births. Infertile couples in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s increasingly sought help from physicians. Although the true number of children born using donor insemination is impossible to ascertain, popular articles in Time and Newsweek suggested that as few as 10,000 and as many as 50,000 children were born using AID in the 1950s and 1960s (Inhorn, 2009).

Sperm Banking

The first sperm banks in the United States, typically small and private, developed in the 1960s. Commercial cryo banks—laboratories for screening, preparation, storage, and distribution of sperm—emerged as a for-profit industry in the 1970s. By the 1980s, there were 135 in the United States. One of the most notorious, created by entrepreneur Robert Clark Graham in the 1970s, was aimed at banking the sperm of Nobel laureates and other men who were deemed highly intelligent. This sperm bank, which closed in 1999, had an eugenic aim, and claims to have been responsible ...