A moral evaluation of assisted reproductive technologies

U uvodnom dijelu razmišljamo o daru ljubavi i života što ga je Bog Stvoritelj povjerio čovjeku. Svrha bračne ljubavi je duhovno jedinstvo srca i duše te tjelesno sjedinjenje supružnika koje je po svojoj naravi usmjereno rađanju. Statistike potvrđuju kako je više od 10 % brakova neplodno. Uzroci bračne neplodnosti su mnogovrsni. U slučaju neizlječive neplodnosti sve je više parova koji uz pomoć različitih metoda umjetnog osjemenjivanja ili izvantjelesnog začeća nastoje ostvariti svoje roditeljstvo. Medicinsko rješenje bračne neplodnosti uz pomoć tehnika izvantjelesnog homolognog te poglavito heterolognog umjetnog začeća predstavlja u moralnom smislu vrlo složene i dvojbene postupke. Bez obzira na plemenitost cilja koji se želi postići raznim tehnikama umjetnog začeća, činjenica je da one narušavaju jedinstvo braka, protive se dostojanstvu ljudske osobe i pravu svakog čovjeka da bude začet iz uzajamnog osobnog i tjelesnog darivanja svojih roditelja. Na kraju donosimo neke statističke podatke o trudnoćama koje su ostvarene izvantjelesnim začećem, a završile su porođajem od 2011. do 2015. u Klinici za ginekologiju i porodništvo Sveučilišne kliničke bolnice u Mostaru.The introductory section deals with the gift of love and life that God the Creator has given to human beings. The purpose of marital love is the spiritual unity of the heart and the soul, and the bodily union of spouses, which by their nature are directed towards birth. Statistics confirm that more than 10 percent of marriages are infertile. There are many causes of marital infertility. In the case of incurable infertility, there is an increasing number of couples who, with the help of different methods of artificial insemination, seek to become parents. The medical solution of infertility with the help of techniques of homologous and especially heterologous fertilization, represents a very complex and dubious procedure, in the moral sense. Regardless of the nobility of the goal of artificial insemination, the fact is that it distorts the unity of marriage, and is contrary to the dignity of the human person, and the right of every person to be conceived through the mutual personal and physical giving of their parents. Finally, the article presents statistical data on pregnancies that have been achieved by in vitro conception and have resulted in birth, at the Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics at the University Clinical hospital in Mostar in the period from 2011 through 2015