“A small percentage have never been in a relationship and never had intercourse”.
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According to the report of Daily Mail, physicians have reported that a minimum of 25 women – heterosexual females – have undergone virgin births by making use of IVF treatments to get pregnant.
More women than ever are giving birth without ever having sex.
Ragunath adds that over the past three years she’s treated three such women: a nurse, another living at home with parents, and a third who needed multiple rounds of IVF. A teddy bear that they pick off the shelf?
The phenomenon of “virgin births” drew criticism from some ethical and religious campaigners, who said they may not be in the child’s interests and undermined the principle of family life.
Josephine Quintavalle, from Comment on Reproductive Ethics, hit out at the news, saying: “What is the child for these women?” The diminished role of the father is not desirable for the child’.
The Bishop of Carlisle, James Newcome, said the trend would “have implications for society that would not be helpful”.
Hasan said that when the man is removed from the aspect of a family, the woman becomes merely a breeding machine.
Women feel that they want to be mothers, without needing to enter a relationship with a man or a marriage to do so. She said that IVF clinics, however, have the responsibility to evaluate why their patients want to do so. About 28% of those girls’ parents said they rarely talked to them about sex or contraception – compared to only 5% of other women who became pregnant and had had intercourse.
VIRGINS are having babies through IVF treatment at clinics across Britain. This could result in the child not being brought up with love.
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Children born through in vitro fertilization have the right to find out who their biological father is once they reach 18 years old.
