Anna Alichniewicz, Monika Michałowska, Medicine of the Beginning of Life. Bioethical and Philosophical Arguments in the ART Debate
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Assisted reproductive technology (ART) because of the interference with the processes occurring in the very stuff of life has raised many problems concerning its medical, ethical, social, economic and legal aspects. In our book, we take a closer look at some of the questions we consider especially puzzling yet of great importance for ART. We have not attempted an exhaustive presentation of all ART-related issues that have been discussed since the inception of this form of medical intervention, but rather have focused on the questions that seem especially worthy of inquiry as being of a fundamental significance (the status of the human embryo), those relating to the ART procedure so frequently performed that it refers to the broad swathe of ART cases (egg donation), to a procedure that is especially challenging morally (preimplantation genetic diagnosis), and to the ART problem which is very often overlooked or misrepresented (parental age).
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Not all people want to have children, and not having children is not a disease. But involuntary childlessness is quite a different matter. People who want to have children usually consider the ability to fulfil their desire to be a very important factor in deciding on their overall life satisfaction. Thus if they cannot have children because of health issues, there probably are few things of comparable significance in their lives, and overcoming this obstacle becomes a vital issue to them. Contemporary medicine with its sophisticated assisted reproductive technologies (ART) can address that need in a way that many regard as a kind of miracle.
On the other hand, because of the interference with the very stuff of life, assisted reproductive technology has raised many problems concerning its medical, ethical, social, economic and legal aspects. Some of them have become genuine dilemmas addressed by a whole range of incongruous approaches founded on various philosophical stances. Yet the main objective of assisted reproduction—that is, enabling people to have children—renders it an everyday issue of essential importance to many of us, and thus the controversies ART has caused call for ongoing discussion, even if it is a practical rather than a theoretical consensus than can be reached.
In our book we take a closer look at some of the questions we consider especially puzzling, yet of great importance for ART. We have not attempted an exhaustive presentation of all ART-related issues that have been discussed since the inception of this form of medical intervention but rather have focused on the questions that seem especially worthy of inquiry as those of a fundamental significance (the status of the human embryo), as well as those related to an ART procedure performed so frequently that it concerns a broad swathe of ART cases (egg donation), to a procedure that is especially challenging morally (preimplantation genetic diagnosis), and to an ART-related problem which is very often overlooked or misrepresented (parental age).
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