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Why are couples having so much difficulty deciding what to do with their embryos? I feel as if my partner and I were in the same situation we would both lean toward donating the unused embryos. What is the point of leaving the embryos to get to the point where they could not be used at all? Rather, shouldn't it be an obligation on our part to donate it to research to try and help millions of people? I mean isn't it a bit selfish to want to freeze your "extra" embryos solely for the comfort of knowing they are still there. Some individuals feel that each embryo is their potential child while others do not. Perhaps it may be due to the fact that they see what they have created, carried and loved. The entire concept and idea of them having to potentially give up another baby like their very own is stressful and overwhelming. Whatever the case may be, I definitely believe that the fate of the embryos should be discussed and defined before they are created. After doing some research, I found that there are over 200,000 embryos that are left over from in vitro fertilization attempts to help couples have children. The unused embryos are frozen in labs all over the United States, waiting for a decision about what will be done with them. The United States, unlike other countries, has no rules about how long human embryos can remain frozen before a decision about their fate must be made. This has led to a growing number of unused frozen embryos, with many suggestions but little consensus about what exactly should happen to them. As it stands, couples are given the option of leaving the embryos frozen for later use, donate them to other couples, donate them for research, or just discard them. I think it is really important for couples to have a clear cut plan of what they are going to be doing with their embryos. In the article they mention a so-called "natural" way of killing the embryos..."having them placed in the woman's body a time in her cycle when she would probably n

When the Babies and US Fertility IVF and ICSI Centre website first loaded, I was thrown off by all the color and text on the page. I felt overwhelmed with information and thought it detracted from the appeal many other websites have. The homepage of the site made me feel as though they took the process as if it were a hair appointment or spa consultation. The online consultation and various options to "click here" made me uninterested to find out more on this center. Moreover, the image of the couple made me feel nervous due to their own worried expressions. I felt as though the site was very unprofessional and was not accommodating to the average viewer. The text was dense and difficult to understand with too much information to absorb at once. After noticing that this site was based in Mumbai, I began to consider the population to which the website is engaging. I showed a few sites to my mom, and asked her to comment on this specific one, and she actually said she liked it. She said that most viewers of this site know what they are searching for and would not care for pictures and attractive graphics. These viewers are more concerned with results and information, which is exactly what this site provides. After considering the different mindsets of different cultures, I realized that although this site did not appeal to my viewing pleasures, that it may in fact be perfect for others, as it goes straight to the meat of the information and provides the necessary descriptions and information of their center and procedure.

Contrary to Nisha, agreeing with her Mother, I found this to be a decent site for IVF. True the pictures are depressing, but wouldnt you be too if you were in the predicament and couldnt make a baby? People relate better with others in their predicament. This site isnt flashing happy couples with IVF babies showing off how they finally got a baby and you didnt. Afterall theres no guarentee every couple will have a successful IVF baby. The layout of this site instead is more like "Hey, we know your bummed, but try us out. Look at all our interesting facts and figures, we could probably work something out for you". Nisha's mother is also completely right in the sense that people who come to these sights dont care for fancy graphics (i think thats more a western raised thing too) but more for the hardcore results they can provide from their services.

I looked around the website of the Medical Center located in Sofia. It's not particularly well organized, at first I was unsure of where to start. It's not especially visually pleasing, it has a rather bland plum color that is concentrated throughout the whole website, perhaps also a lack of pictures. The majority of US IVF websites use the technique of including a vast amount of pictures of "perfect families", in this case there is only one picture of a baby however, still very cute and then another picture of a woman dressed in white, looking rather angelic. This website is definitely not trying to approach to a foreign market outside of Bulgaria as it is definitely geared up for patients living in Sofia as it does not seem to provide much information for patients who are living outside of Bulgaria. Even though it does boast the standard offered in Sofia: "highest level of professionalism in the field of modern reproductive technology". It really seems a method of convincing people that this is really the best clinic in Sofia for locals. Even though it's not the most professional looking of websites it does seem to include all the basic information that a patient would want to know. It even includes the prices of very specific treatments.

I found this site to be truly representative of Indian culture. We discussed it as well in class. It most likely caters to people of the similar background so Im sure it makes a great impression off the bat. To a westerner. im not sure though. Its not exactly going for the cute baby theme pertaining to kids, its more just a stylish kind of design representative of India's colorful culture. The streets of India look like this website. Now im not saying the website looks so horrible that its compared to a third world country, but again im talking about the colors. It's like the Little Havana equivalent. At the sametime the site makes sure to relay a respectable reputation as well highlighting its recent events and providing plenty of information with great facts and figures. Agreeing with Elizabeth, I also agree they have asserted both professionalism and seriousness, while at the same time keeping themselves non intimidating.

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I looked around the website of the Medical Center located in Sofia. It's not particularly well organized, at first I was unsure of where to start. It's not especially visually pleasing, it has a rather bland plum color that is concentrated throughout the whole website, perhaps also a lack of pictures. The majority of US IVF websites use the technique of including a vast amount of pictures of "perfect families", in this case there is only one picture of a baby however, still very cute and then another picture of a woman dressed in white, looking rather angelic. This website is definitely not trying to approach to a foreign market outside of Bulgaria as it is definitely geared up for patients living in Sofia as it does not seem to provide much information for patients who are living outside of Bulgaria. Even though it does boast the standard offered in Sofia: "highest level of professionalism in the field of modern reproductive technology". It really seems a method of convincing people living in Sofia that this is really the best clinic in Sofia. Even though it's not the most professional looking of websites it does seem to include all the basic information that a patient would want to know. It even includes the prices of very specific treatments.