This document discusses artificial insemination as a way to conceive without sexual intercourse. It describes the different methods of artificial insemination, including intravaginal, intracervical, and intrauterine insemination. There are two types: homologous insemination using the husband's sperm, and heterologous insemination using a sperm donor. Justifications for homologous insemination include male impotence or infertility. The document also analyzes artificial insemination through the lenses of different ethical theories and their varying views on whether it is moral or immoral.

2. Is lovemaking=baby making?

3. Is it possible to make babies
without having sexual
intercourse?

5. Moral Issue of Artificial
Insemination
Mevelle Asuncion, RN

6. Artificial insemination
 Depositing a man’s semen in the vagina,
cervical canal or uterus, through the use
of instruments to bring about conception
without sexual intercourse.
 How is it done?
 Intravaginal
 Intracervical
 intrauterine

7. Methods of extraction
 Masturbation
 Condomistic intercourse
 Coitus interruptus
 Anal massage of the prostrate gland
 Direct puncture of the epididymis

8. Two types of AI
1. Homologous insemination (AIH)
1. Semen is from the husband
2. Heterologous insemination (AID)
1. Semen from other person other than husband

9. AIH
(Homologous Artificial Insemination)
 2 methods
1. Do-it-yourself.
2. Homologous IVF and ET
1. Homologous in vitro and embryo
transfer

10. AID two methods
1. Heterologous artificial
insemination
2. Heterologous IVF and ET

11. Justifications of AIH
1. husband is impotent
2. Anatomical defects
3. Oligospermia/azoospermia
4. Spinal injury
5. Vasectomy
6. Physiologice obstructionsof genital
organs of wife

12. Application of ethical theories
 Natural law ethics/Roman Catholic
 Immoral
 Situational ethics
 Moral
 Our right to overcome childlessness
 Utilitarianism
 Moral since it produces more happiness
 Pragmatism
 Moral since it is practical, beneficial and useful and
workable
 Immanual Kant
 Principle of autonomy
 It is moral only if and only if the couple it is voluntary and
mutually agreed.