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The aim of this article is to investigate whether techniques used for artificial reproduction safeguard or promote the future child’s welfare, and whether they are capable of offering potential future children the best possible chance for the best life, in keeping with guidelines derived from the Principle of Procreative Beneficence. This analysis will be important for discerning the parental responsibility of couples or single reproducers who plan to use or have used any of these techniques, and also for those who defend the Principle of Procreative Beneficence, which implicitly entails the use of techniques of assisted human reproduction. The paper concludes that prospective parents should be informed not only of the specific level of risk and potential damages associated with each IVF technique, but also of the fact that given the available evidence none of the standard IVF techniques can be considered to be risk free, there is reason to believe that none of these techniques can be reconciled with the responsibility of prospective parents to the promote welfare of future children and/or to offer them the best possible life
Talk given at National Catholic Bioethics Center, Bishops’ Workshop, Dallas/TX in February 2011. Content can be found on DVD of National Catholic Bioethics Center. In addressing the moral problems surrounding reproductive technologies in front of you today, I want to emphasize that this is not an abstract problem for my husband and me, since we suffered from infertility for over 8 years before having our little Thérèse in September 2009. Infertility causes much pain and is a challenge for the couple, their family, friends, and for their pastors. It can be daunting to have to raise the issues regarding artificial reproductive technologies with people who are suffering intensely from their infertility and to tell them de facto that the seemingly only options available for having a child are not acceptable. The bearer of bad news is never welcome; those telling the couple that they may not use in vitro fertilization (IVF), surrogacy, donor sperm or eggs, may worry about the reactions they will receive. But the infertile couple often does not know what further suffering is awaiting them if they opt for these technologies, and especially what pain they might inflict on their children. Accepting their infertility and exploring morally acceptable treatment options will ultimately allow the couple to grow in many ways while the facile answer of an IVF-child will be fraught with new trauma. There are different ways of approaching the issue and helping infertile couples gain much needed clarity. To show that this is possible from a common sense perspective, using the moral law and medical data, is the purpose of this talk.
Innovations In Assisted Reproduction Technology [Working Title]
Bioethics of Assisted Reproductive TechnologyAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Ethical Aspects of the New Reproductive Technologies1988 •
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The analysis of the welfare of the child in the context of medically assisted reproduction is divided in two parts: the first part addresses the risks associated with the would-be parent(s), the second part focuses on possible risks inherent in the technologies and treatments themselves. The risk factors connected with the intended parents may be medical and psychosocial. Two important considerations are raised here: the necessity to avoid discrimination and respect for the privacy of the patients. The second part concerns the ethical questions involved in the rapid dissemination of new technologies in assisted conception. Technology and research must always be subordinate to the welfare of the future offspring. The different steps involved in the responsible application of medical technologies to treat infertility are analysed.
Le Journal médical libanais. The Lebanese medical journal
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