Assisted Procreation

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 ...

6. Ethical issues related to multiple pregnancies in medically assisted procreation.

In this sixth statement of the ESHRE Task Force on Ethics and Law, the focus is on the ethical issues raised by multiple pregnancies resulting iatrogenically from the use of medically assisted procreation. The incidence of multiple pregnancies and the consequences for the child are discussed, together with general and specific ethical issues. Four recommendations are made-single embryo transfer...

The Christian and Assisted Procreation

Medically Assisted Procreation and Fast-Moving Developments in Science and Law: Ethical and Legal Issues in Heterologous Procreation in Italy

Significance for public healthContinual scientific progress is making new applications available, with significant medical, ethical, legal and social implications, not only for the persons directly concerned. In the area of medically assisted procreation, the use of heterologous techniques is able to overcome problems of sterility or infertility for those requesting access to methods of this ki...

Multicenter quality control of the detection of HIV-1 genome in semen before medically assisted procreation.

Couples in whom the man is HIV-1-positive may use medically assisted procreation in order to conceive a child without contaminating the female partner. But, before medically assisted procreation, the semen has to be processed to exclude HIV and tested for HIV nucleic acid before and after processing. The performance was evaluated of the technical protocols used to detect and quantify HIV-1 in 1...

“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...