| This dissertation is a polemic with the radical feminists and the Catholic Church positions on the new reproductive technologies, especially IVF (human in vitro fertilization.) My main argument is that the very negative assessment and so approach to those techniques come from the manners of confronting and leading the IVF oriented debate and that the evaluation itself is not an accurate one precisely because of those manners of discussing IVF. Therefore, I would like to propose other manners of approaching IVF proving that it is crucial to employ them when IVF wants to be debated. Furthermore, I will also try to demonstrate that if more accurate, possibly different, and hopefully not that negative evaluation of and approach to the introduced technologies want to be produced and developed, the manners, which I propose, have to be employed. At the same time, as a reaction to Sarah Franklin s expressed need for development of new approaches to reproductive politics this dissertation will aim at suggesting/delivering them. Trying to introduce such manners of confronting IVF that can result in an accurate evaluation of this method and at the same time proving their importance for producing proper assessments, I also want to indicate the best ways that in my opinion should be chosen in order to know what those new technologies are really all about. In this sense I will also examine the visual representations of IVF, which have become an essential part of medical and cultural landscape(s), for its credibility in reflecting and describing the everyday reality of human in vitro fertilization procedures. |
