Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection: A Bioethical Analysis
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Assisted reproductive techniques have been a great blessing for the infertile couple. Some have questioned their use, citing the unknown risk to the unborn child. The emergence of one of the newest techniques, intracytoplasmic sperm injection, has again sparked debate on the ethics of assisted reproductive techniques. Those who oppose intracytoplasmic sperm injections use are primarily concerned with risk to the future child. Alternatively, others believe that once born, a person will almost always choose life over not being born at all. The former group espouses parental responsibility, while the latter invokes procreative liberty. Only until more data accumulates on current and future “intracytoplasmic sperm injection children” will the question of risk be more accurately assessed. Until that time, intracytoplasmic sperm injection should only be employed after a thorough medical review of each case, following fully informed consent, and as long as the malformation rate does not show a statistically significant increase from the normal population.
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