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By CATHY KIRKHAM
Battalion Reporter
There are few real moral or ethical problems relating to the test
tube baby approach of human reproduction. Dr. H. Tristram
Engelhardt told a Great Issues audience Thursday. However, he
addressed himself to many moral and ethical problems raised by
society.
Engelhardt, professor of medicine at the Kennedy Institute of
Ethics at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., spoke to a
crowd of about 80 people.
“Invitro fertilization (performed outside the living organism) offers
a future step in human self-creation, self-reproduction and self-
manufacturing,'' he said.
The main objective of the process is to allow women to have chil
dren who otherwise could not and to allow them to carry the fetus.
Engelhardt said that several guidelines proposed by the Depart
ment of Health, Education and Welfare are ambiguous. “The rights
of the donor have been made into a legal issue. Artificial insemination
is widely practiced in Texas, so what is the difference between any
rights of the sperm donor and the rights of the ovum donor? There
are no spelled-out rights for the sperm donor.”
Engelhardt said the following are reasons for the necessity of re
search in the area of invitro fertilization:
— to develop more effective contraceptives by studying how fer
tilization occurs; 1
— to determine particular causes for infertility by observing fertili
zation;
— to deliberately cause malformations in laboratory animals by
controlling variables in the embryonic fluid and studying the results
of these changes;
— to study mechanisms causing chromosome abnormalities early
in development, and to examine what is normal and what is abnormal
in genetics.
— to examine the revolutionary relationship between human and
nonhuman cross-fertilizations.
Engelhardt said there is the concern of the moral and legal stand
ing of the zygote (union of the male and female gametes). Part of that
concern wonders if indeed the zygote is considered a person. He said
that abortion is accepted, yet experiments on fetuses are not, even
when it is known that they will abort before birth.
There is also societal concern for possible injury to future genera-
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tions. Who, he asked, would carry the responsibility for speech de
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