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(2016) Human dignity of the vulnerable in the age of rights, Dordrecht, Springer.
The principle of respect for human vulnerability and assisted reproductive technologies
Vicente Bellver
pp. 313-338
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.Touching upon two paramount biotechnological matters for the time being, such as mitochondrial transfer and the international gestational surrogacy from the principle of human vulnerability perspective, the many risks for the parties involved lead the author to cast doubt on regulating these practices and to advocate for an effective universal prohibition.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-32693-1_14
Full citation:
Bellver, V. (2016)., The principle of respect for human vulnerability and assisted reproductive technologies, in A. Masferrer & E. García-Sánchez (eds.), Human dignity of the vulnerable in the age of rights, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 313-338.
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