lest-tvibe fertilization offers ao moral problems, prof says il eeded Kappa i from inized mem- luded ffreta, s, and >a Phi ase of young ren at their sident ips com- >f the dence nee of iment rente tures )vides onfer- ineer- 'Jews- he 16 s and ig his n Ap 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- THE BATTALION MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1979 r ALTERATIONS*" Page 3 IN THE GRAND TRADITION OF OLD TEXAS WHERE MOTHER TAUGHT DAUGHTER THE FINE ART OF SEWING — SO HELEN MARIE TAUGHT EDITH MARIE THE SECRETS OF SEWING AND ' LTERATIONS. ‘DON’T GIVE UP — WE LL MAKE IT FIT!" AT WELCH'S CLEANERS, WE NOT ONLY SERVE AS AN EXCEL LENT DRY CLEANERS BUT WE SPECIALIZE IN ALTERING HARD TO FIT EVENING DRESSES, TAPERED, SHIRTS, JEAN HEMS, WATCH POCKETS. ETC.- (WE RE JUST A FEW BLOCKS NORTH OF FED MART.) WELCH’S CLEANERS 3819 E. 29th (TOWN & COUNTRY SHOPPING CENTER) Battalion photo by Hurlie Collier Dr. H. Tristam Engelhardt, professor of medicine at Georgetown University’s Kennedy Institute of Ethics, told a Great Issues audience Thursday there are no ethical draw backs to the test-tube fertilization process. Engelhardt gave several reasons that research in the invitro fertilization (that which is performed outside the mother) should continue. tions. Who, he asked, would carry the responsibility for speech de fects? But, he said this argument doesn’t indict the morality of invitro fertilization because parents are presently allowed to have offspring even when it is known that they are carriers of genetic disease. He denied that the process involves unnatural, thus immoral, acts. “Already we have set the usual cause of nature aside, and this has been the road to a great deal of human good. 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