Review article
Artificial insemination focusing on Federal Draft Law on infertility treatment: basic, unavoidable facts
Zorica Maros
orcid.org/0000-0003-4908-2900
; University of Sarajevo - Catholic Theological Faculty in Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Abstract
Introducing only the most basic information about the historical origins of in vitro fertilization, this article discusses the reasoning and practical techniques that show how an initial and in itself entirely legitimate desire to have children, following scientific progress, soon became a source of increasing manipulation, which, because of its very nature, annulled its own justification. Artificial fertilization, a seemingly happy and successful solution for problems of infertility, provided humanity with precious results, but, at the same time, these results meant that artificial fertilization posed a new
challenge to humanity. For this reason, the article places special emphasis on some of the moral and ethical issues that arise in artificial fertilization. Donating cells from semen, exploiting the human body, commercializing human production, trading and experimenting on embryos, the question of identity conceived through artificial insemination: these are not only issues of individual decision and conscience, they concern the whole of society and could have serious and potentially harmful consequences for the entire balance of humanity. As ethical problems increase and become more complex in inverse proportion to the development and simplification of technical capability, artificial fertilization has already exceeded its own initial purpose; it has emerged as a silent threat to the conjugal act and the traditional family, and as a kind of tacitly approved tyranny over human life.
Keywords
artificial insemination; infertility; donating cells from semen; embryo donation; commercialization of human sexuality.
Hrčak ID:
260879
URI
Publication date:
1.7.2015.
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