Changing Attitudes towards Assisted Reproduction and IVF

Kelly Oliver
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Kelly Oliver: Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University, USA

Global Journal of Reproductive Medicine, 2017, vol. 2, issue 2, 23-24

Abstract: If not so long ago pregnancy was something to be hidden, a private matter that required modesty in dress and behavior, now with sexy pregnant bodies and protruding baby bumps on the covers of tabloids every week, a new stigma is attached to Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART), In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) and what goes on at fertility clinics, which is often showed in secrets. If a few decades ago a woman’s pregnant body was considered obscene insofar as it was associated with sex—it was proof that she had sex--today the disconnect between sex and pregnancy made possible by new reproductive technologies appears as the new obscenity. Medical intervention into so-called “natural†reproduction and “good old fashioned†hetero-sex is represented as suspect, even gross. And women who use these new technologies are pictured as unnatural—when they are seen at all.

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Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.19080/GJORM.2017.02.555582

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