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    Assisted reproductive technology (ART) involves medical techniques like IVF and artificial insemination to help infertile couples conceive. It separates procreation from sexual intercourse. Some key issues are the appropriate use of these technologies, their impact on family structures by allowing children to be conceived without a genetic or social relationship to their parents, and ethical concerns regarding embryo use, storage and destruction. Bioethicists contribute to guidelines regarding new ART techniques to ensure justice, beneficence and the interests of all involved in research.

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    Assisted reproductive technology (ART) involves medical techniques like IVF and artificial insemination to help infertile couples conceive. It separates procreation from sexual intercourse. Some key issues are the appropriate use of these technologies, their impact on family structures by allowing children to be conceived without a genetic or social relationship to their parents, and ethical concerns regarding embryo use, storage and destruction. Bioethicists contribute to guidelines regarding new ART techniques to ensure justice, beneficence and the interests of all involved in research.

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    Assisted reproductive technology (ART) involves medical techniques like IVF and artificial insemination to help infertile couples conceive. It separates procreation from sexual intercourse. Some key issues are the appropriate use of these technologies, their impact on family structures by allowing children to be conceived without a genetic or social relationship to their parents, and ethical concerns regarding embryo use, storage and destruction. Bioethicists contribute to guidelines regarding new ART techniques to ensure justice, beneficence and the interests of all involved in research.

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    Assisted reproductive technology (ART)

    Assisted reproductive technology (ART) is a medical intervention developed to improve an


    ‘infertile’ couple’s chance of pregnancy. ‘Infertility’ is clinically accepted as the inability to
    conceive after 12 months of actively trying to conceive. The means of ART involves
    separating procreation from sexual intercourse - the importance of this association is
    addressed in bioethics.

    Some techniques used in clinical ART include: artificial insemination; in vitro fertilisation
    (IVF); gamete intra-fallopian transfer (GIFT); gestational surrogate mothering; gamete
    donation; sex selection and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis. Issues addressed in bioethics
    are the appropriate use of these technologies and the techniques employed to carry out
    procedures for quality and ethical reviews.

    Assisted reproductive technology and its use directly impact the foundational unit of society
    – the family. ART enables children to be conceived who have no genetic relationship to one
    or both of their parents. Children can also be conceived who will never have a social
    relationship with one or both of their genetic parents, e.g. a child conceived using donor
    sperm. Non-infertile people in today’s society including both male and female homosexual
    couples, single men and women, and post-menopausal women are seeking the assistance of
    ART. Concerns in all situations include the child and his or her welfare, including the right
    to have one biological mother and father. The fragmented family created by ART can
    disconnect genetic, gestational and social child-parent relationships which have typically
    been one and the same in the traditional nuclear family.

    Other important bioethical issues include the appropriate use of pre-implantation genetic
    diagnostic screening, use, storage and destruction of excess IVF embryos, and research
    involving embryos. ART research requires human participants, donors and donated embryos,
    oocytes and sperm.

    Ethical issues that arise in ART research surround the creation and destruction of embryos.
    One approach in bioethics involves preserving justice, beneficence, non-maleficence and the
    autonomous interests of all involved. Bioethicists contribute to ethical guidelines and moral
    evaluations of new technologies and techniques in ART as well as topublic discourse that
    leads to development of national regulations and restrictions of unacceptable practices.

    Source:
    http://www.bioethics.org.au/Resources/Resource%20Topics/Reproductive%20Technology.ht
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