The Legal Status of in Vitro Fertilization in Latin America and the American Convention on Human Rights
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Assisted reproductive technologies have generated a worldwide "reproductive revolution."' Latin America is no exception.2 Access to reproductive technology, and in vitro fertilization (IVF) in particular, can substantially benefit people's well-being. IVF is an assisted reproductive technology that involves fertilizing female eggs with sperm outside of a woman's body in a laboratory. In IVF, the ovulation process is hormonally controlled; eggs are extracted for fertilization, and later implanted in a woman's uterus. IVF enables infertile women,
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[Ruling of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the Case of Artavia Murillo et al (in vitro fertilization) v. Costa Rica; new hopes for the reproductive freedom in Latin America].
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