Ethical and legal issues in artificial insemination:

Ethical issues:

ETHICAL-ISSUES

THE POSSIBLE WRONG DONE TO THE PRE-EMBRYO:

A sufficient number of pre-embryos are needed to increase the likelihood of pregnancy. Those that are not needed usually are frozen. Embryos that are not transferred to a woman’s uterus ultimately may be used for research purposes or destroyed. If the embryo is viewed as a human being with the rights normally associated with personhood, arresting its development will be considered a wrong because it constitutes an act of murder.

THE POSSIBLE WRONG DONE TO THE INFERTILE COUPLE OR THE EXPECTED OFFSPRING BY THE PHYSICIAN IN USING IVF:

The success of IVF depends on the number of embryos transferred to the uterus. Multiple pregnancy may occur in this case which is threat to the physical and mental health of the mother i.e she may suffer from high blood pressure or uterine bleeding or other physical problem. Accompanying these physical problems are possible emotional difficulties that might be experienced by both the pregnant woman and her male partner. The couple will have to bear the medical costs of IVF as well as the costs of medical care for their offspring should there be ongoing medical problems.

THE POSSIBLE WRONG DONE TO THE COMMUNITY BY THE USE OF IVF ON THE PARTS OF THE PHYSICIAN AND THE INFERTILE COUPLE:

Community is wronged because the financial resources needed to support the individuals who are made ill by IVF are best spent elsewhere. The obligation of the physician to try to rescue the sick infant, and the need for medical research to refine the technologies of IVF to eliminate or reduce the effects of illness and disease. Society has adopted the rescue mentality even when such efforts are extremely expensive and, in terms of the number of individuals affected, could be used more effectively in other medical arenas.

Legal issues:

LEGAL-ISSUES

LEGITIMACY OF A CHILD ARTIFICIAL INSEMATION:

In English law insemination is legalized through the Fertilization and embryology act 1990. The children born through artificial insemination or through transfer of embryo to a women who is at that time married then her husband will be treated as the father of the child. When a women is unmarried but avail treatment with a man who sperm is not used in artificial inseminating then he will be consider his father.

RIGHT TO KNOW:

Every children has right to know about has origin. In the artificial insemination the identity of donor is kept secret. It is the right of children to know about the AID because he is has biological father.

LIABILITY FOR NEGLINCE:

There would occur wrong which is treat to women health then who is liable for it e.g mixing of sperm of husband and AID. Claim against such wrong to life is allowed in some legal system.

THE POSSIBLE WRONG DONE TO THE OFFSPRING BY THE INFERTILE COUPLE WHO USES IVF:

Multiple pregnancies also present a threat to the well-being of the offspring. Children born of IVF have a significantly greater risk for spina bifida and transposition of the great vessels and that some of the drugs administered to women to stimulate the production of eggs increase the risk of serious birth defects. There is a greater chance of transmitting a Serious Disorder in children who is born through IVF.

Donation:

It is expected that the donor’s give there gametes free of charge but in fact in most cases donor demand for a fee for their donation.

Donor duty to physician:

It is the duty of the donor that he acknowledge it to the physician that he is a suitable donor.

Donor duty to spouse:

It is a duty of Donor to get Consent of his or her spouse for such donation.

Confidentiality right of Donor:

It is the right of the donor to assured to him that his Information would not be given to anyone.

Liabilities toward Child:

The donor should be assured that no responsibility or liability should be upon him as result of donation.