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Ethics and Policy Reproductive Ethics

THE EVALUATION OF INFERTILITY TREATMENT AND APPLICATION OF ASSISTED REPRODUCTION IN THE ASPECT OF HUMAN DIGNITY

Obelenienė B, Narbekovas A, Obelenytė AM

SOTER: Journal of Religious Science, 57, 43-59, 2016
DOI 10.7220/2335-8785.57(85).3

Abstract

The article raises the issue of today’s application of assisted (artificial) reproduction methods, which are incom-patible with human dignity. The authors articulate the principles of human dignity, which are formulated as an evaluation tool of criteria and them revealing system of indicators in the assessed object. The article compares Naprotechnology as a contemporary holistic method of diagnosis and treatment of infertility, which comprises therapeutic, surgical and fertility awareness method, with methods of assisted reproduction and identifies their medical and ethical differences. The project of the Assisted Reproduction Law of the Republic of Lithuania is evaluated in the aspect of human dignity as well.

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Birutė Obelenienė, Andrius Narbekovas, Aušra Marija Obelenytė
B Obelenienė, A Narbekovas, A Obelenytė
DOI 10.7220/2335-8785.57(85).3 10.7220/2335-8785.57(85).3 Obelenienė et al. 2016, Obelenienė 2016

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