Session 22. Assisted procreation

Assisted Procreation

Reprinted with permission from International Federation of Fertility Societies IFFS (International Federation of Fertility Societies) has among its objectives to contribute to the standardisation of terminology and evaluation of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in the field of reproduction. Assisted Reproduction Techniques (ART) have raised new questions which have been addressed with wide...

Medically Assisted Procreation

This article is trying to focus on some important issues of Christian bioethics as assisted procreation and different problems raised around this matter like: „in vitro‟ fertilization, post-mortem fertilization, sperm donors, procreation by surrogate mother, embryos selection, cryo-preservation of the embryos, embryos trade-mark, etc. After clarifying the status of Christian family concept and ...

The Christian and Assisted Procreation

“Regulating assisted procreation: the Italian case”

The actual Italian legislation on medically assisted procreation (Law 40 – February 192004) is one of the most restrictive in Europe. Following an anthropological approach,this paper seeks to analyze the text of this law in relation to the respective public debate.The objective of the analysis is to highlight the moral values legislators want to convey,the role they attribute to...

Assisted Reproductive Technology - Legal Issues in Procreation