The Future of Assisted Reproductive Technology
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Mullen, Kennedy
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2024-04-04
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"On Friday, June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade in a six to three ruling. The decision made by the court ultimately removed individual women’s rights in support of state government policies. This “Pro-Life” movement, made up mostly of Catholics and Evangelical Christians asserted that life begins at conception and therefore abortion should be illegal. Since the Supreme Court ruling, in addition to abortion becoming illegal, some states have begun criminalizing women for miscarriages. This issue has gone beyond abortion and is likely to impact anything that involves an embryo. Assisted reproductive technology, by definition, is classified as any fertility treatment that consists of the manipulation of the egg or embryo. Because this procedure includes conception and manipulates the embryo after life begins, it creates similarities behind the concerns surrounding to abortion. This study challenges the reversal of Roe v. Wade because it jeopardizes the future assistive reproductive technologies. Arguments could be made that the process can result in embryos being discarded and could be classified as killing a living organism, which is the rationale behind the opposition to abortion. The purpose of this study is to analyze the literature to clarify the impact of overturning Roe v. Wade on the future use of reproductive-assisted technology. Data was collected from various primary and secondary sources regarding the legislature, current information on women’s health in the post-war world, information regarding the procedures of fertility, and information on when life begins. This study also explores the impact of religion on defining life beginning. The data presented shows the clear danger threatening the future of reproductive-assisted technology. Concluding that due to the similarities between embryos' lives being ended through termination in abortion and the discarding of genetically abnormal embryos or remaining embryos being discarded after a successful cycle leading to their lives ending as well. Due to those similarities the reversal of Roe v. Wade jeopardizes the future of assisted reproductive technology."