THE ADVANTAGES OF IN-VITRO FERTILIZATION There are numerous advantages by using in-vitro fertilization as far as medical treatments go, and it’s definitely not something to be undertaken without a lot of careful considerations. For humans, there are some certain types of infertility, and IVF has the obvious benefit of solving this problem. Researches and procedures regarding this method present us the advantages of using this method. It is very important to know that prenatal diagnosis represent a major side of IVF; based on these diagnoses, that could determine any disease that may exist; the right decisions can be taken. One recessive disease is about cystic fibrosis, a common disease today.
Cystic fibrosis is a hereditary disease meaning that there is a disruption in the body’s salt balance, leading to disability; it leaves too little salt and water on the outside of cells and is causing a thin layer of mucus.
Handyside, PH.D. is describing the advantage of in-vitro fertilization, based on the prenatal diagnosis that would avoid any risks of having affected children, due to the cystic fibrosis. Doctor Handyside is explaining what is causing this disease in his article “Birth of a Normal Girl After In Vitro Fertilization and Preimplantation Diagnostic Testing for Cystic Fibrosis.” He described what the cause of this disease is; there is an Alfa F508 three-nucleotide deletion. Once a woman got this, it means that is impossible to get pregnant. “In vitro fertilization techniques were used to recover oocytes from each woman and fertilize them with her husband’s sperm.”(Handyside, 1992). Basically, using this method, the researchers may extract everything is wrong in these embryos, leaving there a healthy cleavage-stage embryos that could be implanted in the uterus and avoiding the need to terminate a pregnancy. This is the first advantage that we present here.