A Need to Reproduce Forever
Reproducing is a decision that is irreversible and produces masses of major responsibilities and changes. However large the decision may be, there are many women who decide that they are ready too late in their lives. The delay in becoming pregnant may occur for a variety of reasons, many of which include financial or career stability, mental stability, or pregnancy through outside means, such as in vitro fertilization. Women are expected a stop in the ability to become impregnated with the arrival of menopause. In the book State of Wonder, by Ann Patchett, a woman named Marina Singh travels deep inside the Amazon jungle in the hopes to find Dr. Annick Swenson, a doctor who is developing a drug for pregnancy in post-menopausal women. Dr. Swenson herself has become the first non-native test subject. Marina struggles with the ethical and moral aspects of the activities that are being done on the native cultures. She soon learns that although there are cultural practices that may lead to optimistic advances into post-menopausal pregnancies, there may be no use bringing them back into modern society. Women should not be allowed to reproduce when they have passed natural menopause and the stop in ovulation.
Dr. Swenson studies the Lakashi tribe and lives among them, slowly gaining their trust. The women of the tribe eat the bark of the Martin tree and the hallucinogenic mushrooms called Rapps named after the researcher Martin Rapp, which give them the abilities to reproduce well into their old ages. She makes the inference that the local moths found milling around these forests produces a response that give those who eat it protection against malaria. She soon found their key to being fertile until death...
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... rest of their life from the onset of puberty. There are also many complications a woman may face for both conceiving and giving birth to children in their fifties and even forties. The mother and the baby can both be harmed in the long run. Although there are women who may have lost their chances at having children in their younger ages, there are many children who are waiting to be adopted. There is no need for medical science to develop this possibility, as women are not in a society where conceiving children is the highest priority.
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There is no doubt in the fact that motherhood has changed throughout history in the way that it is practiced and perceived. Although hard to classify motherhood as an "easy" task in any time period, mothers of the Victorian period were among those who have had it the hardest. For example, Natalie McKnight, author of Suffering Mothers in Mid-Victorian Novels, states: "When I first began studying the lives of Victorian women, I sympathized with the many women who suffered through the agonies of labor only to die shortly after the baby was born. As I continued my research, I began to feel more sympathy with those who survived" (McKnight 1).
Women throughout time have been compelled to cope with the remonstrances of motherhood along with society’s anticipations
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With infertility on the rise in women, many women do not even understand they develop it until they try to hold kids and it might be too late for them. Infertility has increased in the United States by 4 percent since the 1980s, mostly from problems with fertility due to an increase in age in women. Worldwide between three and seven percent of all couples or women endure an unresolved problem of infertility. Many more couples, however, experience involuntary childlessness for at least one year. With more people wanting answers the problem is growing exponentially.
In her essay, “Motherhood: Who Needs It?”, Betty Rollin emphasizes the pressures of motherhood that society puts on women and highlights the fact that becoming a mother is not a natural instinct.
Many women describe it as a privilege and miracle, while others consider the act itself of conceiving and carrying another human being as an inexplicable feeling. Those women that enjoy the opportunity of being a mother cherish every moment and appreciate it as a wonderful gift. Although this stands as a beautiful thing, there exists women choosing to abort. Women of all ages may face the decision of whether or not to terminate the life that they carry in their womb through the abortion process. Nevertheless, late term abortion results in terrifying consequences. The procedure causes health complications for the mother, inflicts pain on a living fetus, and kills the unborn baby.
Reproduction is fundamental for the perpetuation of a species and therefore is a trait all species possess. Human reproduction is usually not viewed in this context. Extinction of humans is not considered a threat, but the ability to reproduce is an issue of meeting social expectations. Psychologist Dr. Helen Fisher states that society tends to pressure women into feeling that motherhood is their sole connection to being female (Rutter, 1996). Likewise, men are influenced by society into feeling that they need to perform their part by "planting the seed" (Rutter, 1996). Fisher's insight may only represent parts of the reason humans feel the need to reproduce. However, it is evident that the ability to conceive a child is an important issue for most married couples. Unfortunately, complications occur when couples are infertile. Recent developments in reproductive technology have provided alternative methods of reproduction that can greatly enhance an infertile couple's chances of conceiving. However, there are ethical and legal issues that accompany the use of these reproductive technologies. It is the responsibility of everyone, especially Christians, to become informed of the options reproductive technology can provide as well as the legal and ethical issues involved with their use before taking appropriate action.
When woman stop ovulating and menstruating there is a loss of fertility. There are at least four hypothesis for the evolution of menopause. They are the mother, the grandmother, the by-product, and the self- domestication. The mother hypothesis stop reproducing because the risk of dying in childbirth increases with age. Grandmother hypothesis claims the grandmother can help their daughter rear their grandchildren. The by-product claims that menopause evolved by a quality control of oocytes and the self –domestication claims that post reproductive life resulted from improvements in survival caused by social behavior and agricultural
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The data came from a 23-year intergenerational, seven-wave panel study of mothers and their children. The mothers were selected...
Coming from a large family, birth and pregnancy were a very common events in my household, from a young age I evoke being curious about my mother’s pregnancies and as I got older and got a better understanding of the stages of birth and pregnancy I became captivated by my mother’s pregnancies and insisted that I attended as many antenatal appointments that I could. I also became very interested with the midwife that came to our house and provided my mother with all the support she needed and the job she done. I concluded that midwives play an important role throughout pregnancy, the labour, and the postnatal period, and also in a woman and her family’s lives, providing them with all the maintenance and assistance they can get. Eventually I