Is IVF part of Biological Techniques…

A question can be raised in relation to this stance, concerning IVF technologies. If a couple were to have a biological reason which precluded them from conceiving without the aid of medical intervention and they decided to undergo IVF procedures in order to have a child, does this then give society the right to say that they must then accept further interventions, such as the correction of a disability? There are a number of tensions inherent in this scenario, the one being most important to the current discussion is whether a matter of chance, that is whether one will be able to have a child or not without medical intervention, should be enough to overturn the rights a person would possess were they able to conceive without interventions. In this case I think that it does. Given that there are a number of embryo’s produced for the purpose of implantation and that these embryo’s will by necessity be screened for viability there seems little justification to choose an embryo that possessed a disability that would impact negatively on its right to an open future over an embryo that did not possess that disability.