...N 4531 Mother and Family OB Lab Assignment “In the Womb” [pic] Assignment: The purpose of this lab is to develop and understanding of fetal growth from an embryo to a fetus. These videos give will provide a basic understanding. 1. Watch "National Geographic: “In the Womb" (90 minutes total.) Available on YouTube, please watch all segments 1-10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0WM9oRr07w 2. You can also view Alexander Tsarias’ video From Conception to Birth 2010 also available on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKyljukBE70 3. Answer the questions attached to this lab assignment to be turned in via Blackboard in the Assignment Drop Box by November 4th (prior to midnight). Name: Isabella Dao Module 1- “In the Womb” Instructions: View “In the Womb” 1. List and describe the function of two internal female reproductive organs. a. Ovaries: Almond shaped organs located on the sides of the uterus which function in ovulation and hormone production b. Fallopian tubes: Attached to the uterine fundus and supported by broad ligaments which provides a passage between the ovaries and the uterus for movement of the ovum 2. Describe what occurs in one of the phases of the ovarian cycle. The luteal phase begins immediately after ovulation and ends with the start of menstruation. So the corpus luteum reaches its peak of functional activity 8 days after ovulation secreting the...
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...Dialogue 6 This scenario is a rather tricky one to navigate. In the event that this couple had decided to use a pill that had the “back-up” component of implantation prevention, I would ask them some questions to gauge their openness in discussing the subject and to see how much research they have done. It could be that they, like many couples, are merely uneducated and do not understand what the drug is doing in the womb. Depending on the type of pill, it will release cause the mucus in the vagina to thicken, impeding the journey of the sperm to the uterus. It also dries up the red blood vessels to prevent the embryo from implanting in the uterus, just in case fertilization were to occur. Defining conception as the formation of a zygote...
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...In Richard Lacayo’s “Is the Womb a Rentable Space?” Lacayo is informing his readers on the issue of Surrogacy birth and how few of them end in custody battles, but the attention they receive may distort the issue. He refers to the biblical passage of Sarah and Abraham to further spread his message. In Genesis 16, we are told the story of Sarah and her husband Abraham’s struggle to have a child. Because of this struggle, they have their child through their servant, Hagar. After Ishmael is born Sarah was despised in Hagar’s eyes, and Hagar was never fully accepted into the tribe even though she was Ishmael's mother, causing her to be rejected and expelled into the desert. Like the distortion of Surrogacy, some only see what gets the most...
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...How a child develops in the womb. From the moment of conception, rapid cellular division begins and initiates the start of a child's development in the womb. The developing embryo will go through many changes. From the development of organs and bones to eyes, ears, and tiny feet and hands, what once was an egg and sperm will become a child. Fertilization A sperm must locate the mature egg in the fallopian tube. Once the sperm fertilizes the egg, the egg, which is now a blastocyst, will continue to move down the fallopian tube into the uterus. On or about the seventh day, the blastocyst develops chorionic villi, hairlike structures used to absorb nutrients for the growth of the embryo, which enable it to implant into the lining of the uterine wall. According to Biology of Reproduction, the chorionic villi in the placenta function as necessary structures in exchanges between the fetus and mother. Blastocyst The blastocyst will develop into two separate parts. The outer cells develop into the placenta. According to What to Expect, the placenta carries nutrients and oxygen to and waste materials away from the fetus. The inner cells of the blastocyst will form into the embryo. The amniotic sac will form an inner layer of membranes that will fill with amniotic fluids, which will protect the developing embryo for the remainder of the pregnancy. Embryonic The embryonic stage of development is characterized by the formation of the external body structures and internal organs....
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...In his essay on “womb for rent”, Ellen Goodman, pays attention to the surrogacy world that is prevalent in the modern world. Surrogacy is a condition by which women or mothers who cannot be able to conceive a child or children goes through to have a kid. In this way, men who are willing to be paid to donate their seeds to become the surrogate fathers deliver their sperms into the sperm bags after which they are put into the female reproductive system via technology. As such, in his writing, Ellen Goodman tries to present reasons why surrogate practice is done and postulates various reasons why it should be curbed down. According to Goodman, he noted that surrogacy has cut across diverse countries stretching from one continent and extending to others. Therefore, with lots of concern Ellen realized that surrogacy has become an issue of global concern and as such, should be viewed as a different dimension. The focus of this essay is, therefore, to analyze the...
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...Lesson Eight Paper Assignment – Family The most interesting article I read from this section was “Coming to the U.S. for Baby, and Womb to Carry it” by Tamar Lewin. I really loved this article, because there are so many things to talk about with surrogacy, good and bad. There is also a lot to talk about pertaining to the cost, health, and legal aspects that have to do with it all. Before reading this article I was totally supportive of surrogate pregnancies, and I still am, but they raised a lot of good points against it as well. The biggest part of the article for me is giving anyone who is straight, gay, infertile, or in between the right to have a child. I fully support all of it, I think everyone should have the opportunity to start a...
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...“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you.” This quote is written by Jeremiah, chapter one, verse five. This quote teaches people all around the world to respect each other. This quote can also help us understand God’s plan for us. Some examples of destroying God’s plan for us are by taking drugs, and having abortions. By taking drugs, you are ruining God’s plan for yourself. God has a perfect life plan for us, but He also gave us free will. While God knows how our lives are going to happen, His plans might be interrupted by our free will. We are not respecting life because we are destroying our health and our bodies and our lives by taking drugs. This quote can remind us that we should not ruin God’s plans for us by not respecting life....
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...I think abortion is the most important social issue. Abortion is a wide spread controversy amongst the people and different religions in the United States. I believe abortion is murder and should be outlawed. Those who believe abortion is okay believe this because they think it is the woman’s right to choose. They might also believe the baby is not a human until it is born. I feel life starts at conception. When someone is pronounced dead they don’t have a heart beat or have any brain activity. Although, when in the womb, a baby’s heart will start beating and the brain will start to develop around 4 weeks. With this scientific fact how can anyone say that the little baby in the womb is not indeed alive. The baby in the womb can also feel...
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...controversial and present a multitude of issues that make call into question its benefits. Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World, features the birth of babies in artificial wombs as an alternative to natural pregnancies. Huxley describes new problems arising such as Although this controversial device could be available in the far future, it is currently only being researched as a way to treat and care for premature babies who would not survive outside of the womb. With these new technologies, it is possible to have positive impacts on the health of unborn babies without encountering negative effects such...
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...Word Count: 1258 Thomson: Permissible Abortion In this essay, I will argue that Thomson successfully defends the view that abortion is permissible in the case that the parents had protected sex (and this is not a minimally decent Samaritanism case). I will achieve this in four steps. Firstly, I will explain Thomson’s background ideals that a fetus is a person, and explain what a minimally decent Samaritanism is. Secondly, I will present Thomson’s argument. Thirdly, I will present one original objection to this argument. Lastly, I will argue that this objection isn’t strong enough to make Thomson’s argument unsuccessful. For her argument, Thomson assumes that the fetus is a person. She only assumes this because of the dimness of the prospects for ‘drawing a line’ in the development of the fetus. A human develops continuously from conception through birth into childhood, but picking a point to which something isn’t a person before this point and is a person after this point would be arbitrary. However, Thomson does think that a fetus has become a human being well before birth because of how early it acquires human characteristics. So, although it isn’t sure exactly where a fetus becomes a person, Thomson agrees that the fetus is a person before birth. Therefore, she grants that the fetus is a person from the moment of conception for her argument. (p. 146) Thomson also uses the phrase ‘minimally decent Samaritan’ in her argument. By this, she means one who doesn’t go out of...
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...Critical Analysis In Vitro Fertilization August 19, 2009 Marriages can offer new exciting experiences especially when couples want to start developing a family. For some couples pregnancy is simple and their family begins. For others it isn’t so easy, having children becomes a medical challenge and alternative solutions need to be sought out. One such solution for conception involves using the medical advancement of In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) techniques. However, for many this raises a whole batch of ethical dilemmas. IVF brings up dilemmas such as the process itself, when does “life” begin, how many eggs to fertilize, and cryopreservation of embryos. It is an especially difficult decision for those of Christian beliefs as IVF is not widely received within the Christian community and not clearly addressed in the Bible. I first want to take a look at the process itself and what leads a couple, or individual, to this decision. Before we start, we need to define what infertility is. According to The Fertility Center (2009), infertility is the “inability for a couple to conceive after one year of normal intercourse with no contraception”. Facing infertility is not as uncommon as one might believe, according to the Center for Disease Control, “approximately 1.2 million women made infertility related appointments in 2002”. In simpler terms, one in six couples faces infertility related issues at some point during their childbearing...
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...establish that the life in the mother's womb is human life. In the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision of 1973, about 500,000 illegal abortions were occurring per year. Today, about 1,500,000 abortions occur each year. There are four basic types of abortion. First, there's the suction abortion where the unborn child is vacuumed from the mother's womb during the early stages of pregnancy. Next is the curette abortion where the child is cut from the mother's womb with a spoon-like object. The third type is similar to a Caesarean operation. The fourth is the Salt Brine technique which, the unborn child is literally "pickled" to death by the injection of a strong salt solution. Then the baby is born as a still birth. The remaining question to be settled is if the fetus is a distinct individual from its mother or just part of the mother's body. Consider the parallel to the Godhead. God the Father and Jesus are two separate individuals by referring to the many passages that mention Jesus as the Son of God the Father. A person cannot be his own father. A father and his son make two separate individuals. “16. And yet if I judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me. 17. It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true. 18. I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me beareth witness of me.”(John 8:16-18) Likewise, when a woman has conceived, the life in her womb is her "son/daughter"...
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...wing proponents. INTRODUCTION The term “Abortion” is etymologically rooted in the Latin word “Aboriri” meaning “miscarry”. Going by this etymology, one may literarily define abortion as either a mechanized or unintended termination or miscarriage of a pregnancy. Technically speaking, abortion is the deliberate act or a medical operation purported to end a pregnancy at an early stage. It is the ending of the life of a fetus before it is able to survive on its own. Most of the arguments that have ensued on abortion recently are based mainly on whether the fetus is a human or a tissue. They all in like fashion gear toward showcasing the logicality or the absurdity of postulations that hold it intricately true that the fetus in the womb is a human with right and in need of respect. Although some have scorned these arguments as rather too myopic, it remains a truism that all arguments about the morality of abortion stops once it is established that the fetus is either a man or a tissue. Before looking at the various forms...
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...Abortion is any expulsion of the fetus, natural or induced when is in the womb and can´t survive on their own. When I heard that people aborted. I thought that it wasn´t fair to that life that was in that womb died because his/her mother chose and didn´t have the opportunity to decide to live or not. But also, I thought of those women who were sexually harassed, and they have the right to choose not to have that baby. Nobody wants a child with a father who doesn´t know who is or doesn´t love him. Abortion is one of the most controversial problems in these times, both in the way they are practiced and in the way of cataloging it as it is the cause of controversies that impact our society. Mothers do not suffer in most of the cases, because they do not imagine that they could not be in this world if their mothers had done the same as them. When the abortion is started, they do not imagine that the person who was going to be born could be a salvation for all of us. He could have been a scientist or an inventor,...
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...In a culture that is founded on the symbolic link between womanhood and reproduction, in a political climate where so many feminist political e orts of the past have been predicated on that link and with church and religion being always against any form of interference in the natural course of childbirth (Kaushik, 2014), the separation of gestation from a woman's body will have earth-shattering consequences for the contemporary feminist movement (Bake, 2014). Feminists have extensively considered what ectogenesis could mean for women's rights, the structure of the family, class and society. Feminist critique ranges from one extreme to the other in terms of whether ectogenesis will liberate or oppress women (Chemaly, 2012). It is a common belief...
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