English, B. (2009). Recession spurs egg and sperm donations: Giving provides extra income.
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This popular article by Bella English, a writer for the newspaper The Boston Globe, discusses the reimbursement which sperm donors receive. This article is aimed for the public who may be interested in participating in such an ordeal and getting paid for it and also for the general public to be informed about a common occurrence within cities. Although there is no main conclusion because this is a newspaper article instead of a research paper, it can be analyzed that most people donate for the money reward. This …show more content…
This article was intended to inform the general public about the many different choices an individual must think about before actually going through with the process. This article had no main conclusion due to the fact that it was a survey, so some information was skewed or missing, and also the survey questions were discussed thoroughly instead of being addressed in a conclusion. The results showed that more than half of both the no-biological father and mother both feel there was an equal amount of input into the choosing the donor. The results also showed that the most important quality that the both non-biological parents looks for in a donor is their health. This article proves that it is ethical to donate sperm because people must go through a rigorous processes of decision making; considering this, a person is mentally capable of dealing with such a procedure after enduring the whole routine. This article provided useful information in forms of graphs which can be seen in the “results” section, and can also be presented in the background section for the general decision making …show more content…
Jones a professor at Yale University, addresses the issue of infertility and helping infertile couples create a family of their own. This peer-reviewed article expresses how many women have been helped with this issue and go through the process to get pregnant. By the time women reach 44, the chances of getting pregnant are quite low. The process of this is through vitro fertilization, with the help of sperm bank these infertile couples are helped. The peer-reviewed article talks about how many times the fertilization treatments don’t work and the couples have no other option but to get pregnant by sperm donation. It gives these people hope in being able to creating a family or at least the chance to since it is not guaranteed. This provides support on the topic of anonymous donation of sperm and its advantages. It’s ethical because it is in support of the help given to infertile couples through sperm donation. This will be applied in the introduction section as well as discussion and conclusion paragraphs. It is in support, which helps the paper not be biased in any way and giving the equilibrium of sources in opposition and