Ethical Issues in Regulating Reproductive Technologies

2016 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Bonnie Stabile
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Reproductive Technologies

scholarly journals Psychotherapy of a Relationship Break-Up in the Context of Assisted Reproductive Technologies

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 132-148
Author(s):  
I.I. Znamenskaya ◽  
M.R. Travkova ◽  
K.R. Arutyunova
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Assisted Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Reproductive Technologies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Fertility Treatment ◽  
Break Up ◽  
The One ◽  
Cryopreserved Embryos

The paper is focused on ethical issues of making decisions about cryopreserved embryos in the context of relationship break-up in the framework of the embryo’s legal status and the church’s stand on the matter. All these issues can be viewed as part of a broader problem of intuitive and rational foundations for decision-making when facing difficult situations in life. On the one hand, the stressful context of the situation implies intuitive-driven decision-making; on the other hand, assisted reproductive technologies are largely counter-intuitive. We describe the peculiarities of family psychotherapy with mixed-agenda couples going through a divorce who have joint cryopreserved embryos but disagree on what to do with them. We introduce a protocol for psychotherapeutic work in the situation when one partner wishes to continue with the fertility treatment and have a child while the other partner is determined to utilize joint embryos as unwanted biological material. In addition, we discuss emotional and social complications that may arise (guilt, unfaithfulness of one of the partners, other losses, and grieving).

scholarly journals Horrors Of Baby Making (Consequences Of Reproductive Technology On Humanity)

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Asma Manzoor ◽  
Saba Imran Ali
Keyword(s):  
In Vitro Fertilization ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Hormone Treatment ◽  
Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Reproductive Technology ◽  
Testicular Sperm Extraction ◽  
Technological Advancement ◽  
Vitro Fertilization

The recent advances in the field of medical sciences have allowed the scientists to control the processes of life and death. These processes not only can prolong the human life by machines but doctors and scientists can also initiate the process of human life: artificial insemination, cloning, in vitro fertilization (IVF), cyropreservation of sperm, oocytes, embryos, embryo transfer (ET), hormone treatment, surrogacy, testicular sperm extraction (TESE) and gamete intra fallopian transfer (GIFT) are well known examples. By far the most common of these is IVF. As a result of these scientific innovation couples have become statistics and children have become scientific experiments. Technological advancement in biology not only raises the question of good or bad technology or good or bad effects of technology but it lead us to the question whether all works of science and technology are beneficial or otherwise for the humankind. Since the birth of Louis Brown in 1978 – the period related to the first ‘test tube baby’ in the UK, many ethical issues regarding reproductive technologies (RT) and their potential impacts on humanity at large have been raised. In the light of extraordinary medical and ethical consequences that the RT has placed on humanity in the developed world, a discussion has been made in the paper to identify and describe the reproductive technology: In Vitro Fertilization (IVF). This paper also explores the difficulties that Muslim countries like Pakistan could face when actual progression of reproductive technologies gets under way.

COALITION BUILDING AND PUBLIC OPINION

1999 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Hatcher Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Technology Assessment ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Coalition Building ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
Extensive Consultation ◽  
To Come

The process of technology assessment is evolving. The process of policy development for technology is the least understood in the cycle of technology assessment. The process of policy development, which should involve extensive consultation and a broad-based research and evaluation program, is often fraught with difficulties and can cause further analysis or the assessment process to come grinding to a halt. This article reviews some social, political, and ethical issues and the role of civil society in influencing the technology assessment process for new reproductive technologies in Canada. It is written from the perspective of one of the Deputy Directors of Research and Evaluation for the Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies and highlights the strengths and difficulties of technology assessment when civil society and technology assessment come face to face. A brief update by a policy analyst in Health Canada on the current situation of legislation on new reproductive technologies has been provided and is included at the end of this article.

scholarly journals Delegation of parenthood and language of reproduction: experts and patients on the birth of ART-children

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 43-56
Author(s):  
Olga G. Isupova
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Female Identity ◽  
Third Parties ◽  
Genetic Connectivity ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Traditional Family ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
Special Language

While understanding their positions on various ethical issues in the field of reproductive technologies, IVF patients form their own special language, not scientific, but rather vernacular, based on real experience. A group of women actively seeking procreation with modern biotechnologies remains somewhat conservative, focused on a traditional family. New concepts and terminology are particularly well-formed in their disputes over the use of reproductive donation. In general, what they articulate and advocate is consistent with concepts of bioethics that are also controversial – for some, the priority of genetic connectivity is unusually strong, while others deny its significance. The study bases on examining perceptions of reproductive donation by bioethics specialists presented in the literature and their comparison with the views of ART patients communicating on the Internet. The author uses qualitative discourse analysis and studies thematic discussions on the Probirka.ru website, which are devoted to the preferences of their participants in relation to reproductive donation, its acceptance or rejection. The study shows that patients’ positions are somewhat more extreme than the views of bioethics. For example, some participants practically deny the existence of genes, while others talk about the advantage of finding a child without using one’s own body. The author reveals different groups of patients, and more traditionally oriented women prefer to delegate the genetic part of parenthood to third parties and cannot refuse to bear pregnancy as they see it as a central part of female identity, while more modernized prefer to keep genetic connection if it is possible to refuse childbearing.

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