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Changing Attitudes towards Assisted Reproduction and IVF

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  • Kelly Oliver

    (Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University, USA)

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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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  • Kelly Oliver, 2017. "Changing Attitudes towards Assisted Reproduction and IVF," Global Journal of Reproductive Medicine, Juniper Publishers Inc., vol. 2(2), pages 23-24, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:adp:jgjorm:v:2:y:2017:i:2:p:23-24
    DOI: 10.19080/GJORM.2017.02.555582
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