Artificial insemination focusing on Federal Draft Law on infertility treatment: basic, unavoidable facts

Autor: Zorica Maros
Jazyk: chorvatština
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Vrhbosnensia : časopis za teološka i međureligijska pitanja
Volume 19
Issue 1
ISSN: 2233-1387
1512-5513
Popis: Uz uvodne i samo najosnovnije podatke o povijesnim počecima oplodnje in vitro, prilog govori i o razlozima i prakticiranim tehnikama koji pokazuju kako je početna, u sebi posve opravdana želja za potomstvom, prateći znanstveni napredak, ubrzo postala izvor sve većih manipulacija čime, u principu, poništava vlastitu opravdanost. Umjetna je oplodnja, naizgled sretno i uspješno rješenje za nimalo zavidne probleme neplodnosti, pružila čovječanstvu čudesno vrijedne rezultate, no istim ga tim rezultatima postavila pred novi izazov ljudskosti. Upravo stoga, poseban je naglasak stavljen na neke od moralno–etičkih problema koji se javljaju pri umjetnoj oplodnji. Doniranje sjemenih stanica, eksploatacija ljudskog tijela i komercijalizacija ljudske produkcije, trgovina embrijima i eksperimentiranje nad njima, pitanje identiteta začetog umjetnom oplodnjom, nisu samo pitanja individualnih odluka i savjesti nego upleću kompletno društvo te mogu imati teške i nimalo bezazlene posljedice za kompletnu ravnotežu čovječanstva. Kako porast i složenost etičkih problema proporcionalno prati usavršavanje i pojednostavljivanje tehničkih mogućnosti, umjetna je oplodnja, već na ovom stupnju, prešla vlastitu početnu svrhu i pretvara se u tihu invaziju nad bračnim činom i tradicionalnom obitelji, kao i prešutno odobrenu tiraniju nad ljudskim životom.
Introducing only the most basic information about the historical origins of in vitro fertilization, this article discusses the reasoning and practical techniques that show how an initial and in itself entirely legitimate desire to have children, following scientific progress, soon became a source of increasing manipulation, which, because of its very nature, annulled its own justification. Artificial fertilization, a seemingly happy and successful solution for problems of infertility, provided humanity with precious results, but, at the same time, these results meant that artificial fertilization posed a new challenge to humanity. For this reason, the article places special emphasis on some of the moral and ethical issues that arise in artificial fertilization. Donating cells from semen, exploiting the human body, commercializing human production, trading and experimenting on embryos, the question of identity conceived through artificial insemination: these are not only issues of individual decision and conscience, they concern the whole of society and could have serious and potentially harmful consequences for the entire balance of humanity. As ethical problems increase and become more complex in inverse proportion to the development and simplification of technical capability, artificial fertilization has already exceeded its own initial purpose; it has emerged as a silent threat to the conjugal act and the traditional family, and as a kind of tacitly approved tyranny over human life.
Databáze: OpenAIRE