Transcript artificial insemination

Artificial Insemination
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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
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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
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Just for fun
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