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Article: Assisted Reproduction: Preserving Families and Protecting the Rights of Individuals
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- Human Rights
- Article date:
- July 1, 2009
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People wanting to form families using assisted reproduction technology (ART) do so for a number of reasons, including infertility, aversion to sexual intercourse, avoidance of unprotected sexual intercourse for fear of disease transmission, or eugenic considerations (a subcategory of which may be avoidance of the risks of genetically transmitted disease or of genetically determined traits deemed to be undesirable). In the case of gestational ART, prohibitive risk of pregnancy and/or delivery, coupled with a desire to perpetuate one's own genetic legacy, is often the primary consideration. For the infertile, a wish to avoid the legal complexities and other inconveniences of the adoption ...