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This site discusses certain facts concerning In Vitro Fertilization. This site also provides an overview of the process as well as the cost and risks involved in the procedure

In Vitro Fertilization is used as a treatment for infertile couples. This site discusses facts about infertility, outlines the process of In Vitro Fertilization, and addresses some health risks that are common of the procedure.

This site again includes a general summary of the process of In Vitro Fertilization. This site however, includes a bias, as it is from the American Pregnancy Association, and therefore downplays some of the risks.

My conception of ethically permissible behavior is based on the view that any decision is ethically permitted if it is voluntary and does not cause gratuitous harm to others. This is congruent with the early ethical stricture in medicine, Primum non nocere, "First, do no harm." However, our perception of harm must be qualified. A living being can be harmed without being harmed in a moral sense. I harm a mosquito when I swat it, but I do not harm it in a moral sense unless I assign a moral absolute value to the mosquito's well-being. To be harmed in a moral sense is to be wronged. Thus, my concern is with behavior that does or does not wrong another.