scholarly journals Availability of the assisted reproductive technologies in the region of former Yugoslav countries

2018 ◽  
pp. 357-367
Author(s):  
Gordana Kovacek-Stanic
Keyword(s):  
Assisted Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Genetic Material ◽  
Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Sex Partners ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Surrogate Motherhood ◽  
The Impact

In the paper ?Availability of the assisted reproductive technologies in the region of former Yugoslav countries?, author analyzes laws in: Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Croatia and Slovenia. There are two elements with the impact to availability of ART: who the subjects are (spouses, heterosexual partners, same-sex partners, woman without partner) and which procedures are regulated. For instance, surrogate motherhood is regulated only in Macedonia in present time. In addition, author analyzes regulation of the donation of the genetic material (sperm, ova, embryo) and posthumous fertilization in all mentioned countries.

scholarly journals THE RIGHTS TO SURROGATE MOTHERHOOD FOR SAME-SEX PARTNERSHIPS

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Оксана Покальчук
Keyword(s):  
Assisted Reproductive Technology ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Assisted Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Reproductive Technology ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Surrogate Motherhood ◽  
Surrogate Mother ◽  
Donor Material

The growing populist sentiment in society and, as a consequence, the reactive adoption of new restrictive legal acts that discriminate and unjustifiably restrict citizens' rights, is a major challenge for the scientific community and human rights in Ukraine. The issue of reproductive rights is one of the most important elements of common discriminatory and often unscientific narratives both in the EU and in Ukraine. Therefore, the scientific community has to take up this challenge and, by examining and exploring the various aspects of the right to reproduce, uphold the rule of science and the rights of Ukrainans, especially in this domain. Surrogate motherhood is always used in combination with other methods of assisted reproductive technology. Thus, surrogate motherhood, as a method of treatment, is burdened not only with legal uncertainty, but also with additional necessary steps (taking donor material, instrumental insemination, etc.) that precede assisted gestation.It is believed that all assisted reproductive technologies, including surrogacy, are treatment methods; therefore, their use cannot in any way depend on a person's social status, including gender self-identification, the fact of marriage or same-sex partnership.The list of medical grounds for surrogate motherhood is defined in the Order of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine On Approval of the Procedure for the Use of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Ukraine. However, we emphasize that the list should be expanded to include diagnoses of transsexuality and other gender identity disorders according to the International Classification of Diseases. Thus, according to item 10 ofthe Unified Clinical Protocol of Primary, Secondary (Specialized) and Tertiary (Highly Specialized) Medical Care: Gender Dysphoria, reproduction opportunities for FtM patients may include freezing of oocytes (eggs) or embryos. Frozen gametes and embryos can later be used for delivery by a surrogate mother. The question stands whythis possibility is not considered in the protocol for the MtF transition with the subsequent possibility of delivery by a surrogate mother. Obviously, with the MtF transition, even with gender reassignment surgery, including the operation the genitals, the woman is not capable of independent childbearing. Such a woman can thus exerciseher right to reproduction only by fertilizing a donor egg with her sperm and then having the embryo that is genetically hers carried to term by a surrogate mother. The issue of male identity for the origin of the donor material (sperm) also needs separate legal regulation. However, in our opinion, this social group should not be discriminated against in access to surrogate motherhood as an assisted reproductive technology.

scholarly journals Alteration of Genomic Imprinting after Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Long-Term Health

Life ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 728
Author(s):  
Eguzkine Ochoa
Keyword(s):  
Embryonic Development ◽  
Experimental Evidence ◽  
Genomic Imprinting ◽  
Animal Studies ◽  
Assisted Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Early Embryonic Development ◽  
Global Methylation ◽  
The Impact

Assisted reproductive technologies (ART) are the treatment of choice for some infertile couples and even though these procedures are generally considered safe, children conceived by ART have shown higher reported risks of some perinatal and postnatal complications such as low birth weight, preterm birth, and childhood cancer. In addition, the frequency of some congenital imprinting disorders, like Beckwith–Wiedemann Syndrome and Silver–Russell Syndrome, is higher than expected in the general population after ART. Experimental evidence from animal studies suggests that ART can induce stress in the embryo and influence gene expression and DNA methylation. Human epigenome studies have generally revealed an enrichment of alterations in imprinted regions in children conceived by ART, but no global methylation alterations. ART procedures occur simultaneously with the establishment and maintenance of imprinting during embryonic development, so this may underlie the apparent sensitivity of imprinted regions to ART. The impact in adulthood of imprinting alterations that occurred during early embryonic development is still unclear, but some experimental evidence in mice showed higher risk to obesity and cardiovascular disease after the restriction of some imprinted genes in early embryonic development. This supports the hypothesis that imprinting alterations in early development might induce epigenetic programming of metabolism and affect long-term health. Given the growing use of ART, it is important to determine the impact of ART in genomic imprinting and long-term health.

scholarly journals Reproductive fluids, used for the in vitro production of pig embryos, result in healthy offspring and avoid aberrant placental expression of PEG3 and LUM.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evelynne Paris-Oller ◽  
Sergio Navarro-Serna ◽  
Cristina Soriano-Úbeda ◽  
Jordana Sena Lopes ◽  
Carmen Matas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Performance ◽  
Assisted Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Culture Media ◽  
Reproductive Technologies ◽  
In Vitro Production ◽  
Aberrant Expression ◽  
Low Efficiency ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Background: In vitro embryo production (IVP) and embryo transfer (ET) are two very common assisted reproductive technologies (ART) in human and cattle. However, in pig, the combination of either procedures, or even their use separately, is still considered suboptimal due to the low efficiency of IVP plus the difficulty of performing ET in the long and contorted uterus of the sow. In addition, the potential impact of these two ART on the health of the offspring is unknown. We investigated here if the use of a modified IVP system, with natural reproductive fluids (RF) as supplements to the culture media, combined with a minimally invasive surgery to perform ET, affects the output of the own IVP system as well as the reproductive performance of the mother and placental molecular traits.Results: The blastocyst rates obtained by both in vitro systems, conventional (C-IVP) and modified (RF-IVP), were similar. Pregnancy and farrowing rates were also similar. However, when compared to in vivo control (artificial insemination, AI), litter sizes of both IVP groups were lower, while placental efficiency was higher in AI than in RF-IVP. Gene expression studies revealed aberrant expression levels for PEG3 and LUM in placental tissue for C-IVP group when compared to AI, but not for RF-IVP group.Conclusions: The use of reproductive fluids as additives for the culture media in pig IVP does not improve reproductive performance of recipient mothers but could mitigate the impact of artificial procedures in the offspring.

The impact of endometriosis on IVF: an evaluation using the society of assisted reproductive technologies (SART) database

2014 ◽  
Vol 102 (3) ◽  
pp. e48-e49 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Senapati ◽  
M.D. Sammel ◽  
S. Boudhar ◽  
C.B. Morse ◽  
K.T. Barnhart
Keyword(s):  
Assisted Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Reproductive Technologies ◽  
The Impact

Same-Sex Partner Bereavement

2017 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 178-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lefteris Patlamazoglou ◽  
Janette G. Simmonds ◽  
Tristan L. Snell
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Research ◽  
Sex Partners ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Disenfranchised Grief ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Sex Partner

The experience of same-sex-attracted people who have lost a partner is neglected in the existing literature on bereavement. Previous research on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer and questioning (LGBTIQ) populations tends to focus on the loss of a partner to HIV-related causes, and there is scant research concerning non-HIV-related bereavement. The purpose of this article is to investigate the non-HIV-related bereavement experiences of same-sex partners and to address the potential complications of disenfranchised grief. Coping with the loss of a same-sex partner and the impact of bereavement on subsequent relationships are also discussed. Implications for counseling of bereaved same-sex-attracted individuals are drawn, and recommendations for future psychological research on the experience of bereavement are made.

Response to “May a Woman Clone Herself” by Jean Chambers (CQ Vol 10, No 2)

2002 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-86
Author(s):  
Timothy F. Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Transfer ◽  
Assisted Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Married Couples ◽  
Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Reproductive Cloning ◽  
Same Sex Couples ◽  
Human Reproductive ◽  
Somatic Nuclear Transfer ◽  
Do So

For many commentators in bioethics and the law, safety is the fulcrum for evaluating the ethics of human reproductive cloning. Carson Strong has argued that if cloning were effective and safe it should be available to married couples who have tried to have children through various assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) but been unable to do so. On his view, cloning should be available only as reproductive last resort. I challenged that limited use by trying to show that the arguments Strong adduces in favor of reproductive somatic nuclear transfer (SNT) for married couples extend to same-sex couples as well, who face a different kind of infertility. I also went on to argue that his justifications would in fact extend the legitimate use of SNT to any couples regardless of whether they had fertility difficulties or not.

scholarly journals Assisted reproductive technologies: psychoneurological, moral-ethical, and socio-cultural aspects

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 104-110
Author(s):  
N. A. Tyuvina ◽  
A. O. Nikolaevskaya
Keyword(s):  
Assisted Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Surrogate Mother ◽  
Reproductive Process ◽  
Vitro Fertilization ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact

The paper provides a definition of sexual and reproductive health and infertility and also reflects modern ideas about ways to overcome infertility using assisted reproductive technologies, such as in vitro fertilization (IVF) and surrogacy. It shows the specificity of the impact of an IVF procedure on the mental health of a potential mother. The features of the neonatal health status, as well as neuropsychiatric disorders in babies born using the IVF procedure are described. The authors present two types of surrogacy (traditional and gestational ones) and the features of their use in different countries according to governmental legislative regulation, socioeconomic and religious factors, and cultural traditions in society. They unveil the features of a psychological relationship between the mother (surrogate and presumed one) and the fetus. The consequences of surrogacy for a surrogate mother, genetic parents, and a child himself/herself are noted to be little studied. It is shown that the development of assisted reproductive technologies (IVF and surrogacy), on the one hand, helps fight infertility and, on the other hand, entails a number of problems (moral and ethical, legal, cultural and religious, socioeconomic, and neuropsychiatric ones) that need to be solved in order to prevent psychological, neurological, and mental abnormalities in all the participants (a surrogate mother, an unborn child, and potential parents) in the assisted reproductive process:

scholarly journals The Intersection of Reproductive, Work-Life Balance and Early-Education and Care Policies: ‘Solo’ Mothers by Choice in the UK and Spain

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 458
Author(s):  
Ana Bravo-Moreno
Keyword(s):  
Assisted Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Early Education ◽  
Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Childhood Care ◽  
Education And Care ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact

This article focuses on women who have opted to be mothers on their own by choice in the UK and Spain, and how their access to assisted reproductive technologies in the National Health Service was affected because they were 35 years old or older, forcing them to go to private clinics for their treatment. Having given birth to their children, the participants face a second obstacle: the lack of policies that support work-life balance. A third obstacle also arises, in the form of a lack of childcare and early-education provision, particularly in the UK. The last two obstacles affect the whole population, but they are intensified in the case of solo-mother-families where the mother is responsible for simultaneously being the caregiver and the sole economic provider. Solo motherhood by choice highlights the impact of the absence of these policies, and the inequalities that result from current contemporary conceptualizations of family, woman and early-childhood-care and education. This article draws on ethnographic research that took place in the UK and Spain where I conducted 60 in-depth interviews and participant observations. The aim is to provide an analysis capable of capturing and confronting how inequalities affect women-mothers-workers and their children.

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