Access to medically assisted reproduction for legal persons: Possible?

• Main Authors: Konečná Hana, Nováková Karolína
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sciendo 2018-06-01
• Series: Ethics & Bioethics (in Central Europe)
• Subjects: assisted reproduction; legal aspects; access; legal person; welfare of the child; thought experiment
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.2478/ebce-2018-0002

Along with the rapid growth that the field of assisted reproduction has experienced over the last few years, numerous ethical issues have arisen and need to be discussed thoroughly. One of them is the limitation of access to assisted reproduction techniques. Because no one should be discriminated against, it is essential to substantiate every single refusal of access carefully. The criterion of welfare of the child is used most frequently. In this paper, we propose a thought experiment aiming at contributing to the discussion by demonstrating that this criterion, even in its strictest form, can easily allow access to assisted reproduction for legal persons as well.