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Infertility, transplants, genetic maedicine and religon  

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Qa) i) Describe the Treatments Available To Help Infertile Couples To Have Children. Infertility is a huge problem in the Western world now; approximately 12.5 per cent of all couples in the UK have fertility problems. Women can take drugs to help them to be fertile. These drugs are not very successful, so most people use fertility treatments, which involve medical technology. There are many ways of artificial insemination such as, in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) - this is a treatment for a woman who cannot become pregnant with her partner naturally in which an egg is fertilised outside her body and the resulting embryo is mechanically inserted into her womb to develop into a baby. Artificial insemination by husband (AIH) includes the husband's sperm inserted into his wife mechanically. Artificial insemination by donor (AID) - AID is when donor sperm is used to fertilise a woman who has an infertile partner or the...

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