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RESEARCH PRODUCT

The Principle of Respect for Human Vulnerability and Assisted Reproductive Technologies

Vicente Bellver

subject

EngineeringAssisted reproductive technologybusiness.industrymedicine.medical_treatmentLawReproduction (economics)medicineReproductive technologybusinessLegal motherSocioeconomicsPersonal Integrityhealth care economics and organizations

description

The chapter tackles the assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs), and the incorporation of two controversial procedures to increase the number of individuals who may satisfy their wish to have children: international commercial surrogacy and mitochondrial transfer. Both of them have an important point in common: the high degree of involvement within the reproduction process demanded to a different woman from the woman who will be the legal mother. In international surrogacy, a woman undergoes a baby gestation for another woman in a different country, who will be the legal mother since the baby is born. In mitochondrial transfer, a woman donates her eggs so that her mitochondria may be used to ‘repair’ the egg of another woman who wants to be a mother, but whose mitochondria are harmed and who does not want her baby to receive them because it would cause him/her serious health issues.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2016-01-01
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32693-1_14