As the number of frozen human embryos continues to rise daily, with numbers not expected to fall, an answer must be found to this dilemma. Four possible solutions have been suggested: a) thaw the embryos and allow them to perish; b) thaw them and donate them for biomedical research; c) thaw them and donate them in adoption; and d) leave them frozen indefinitely. This paper will evaluate the morality of these four possible solutions, particularly frozen human embryo adoption in the light of the Magisterium of the Catholic Church, which in its Instruction Dignitas Personae, appears to have opted to consider this practice as illicit. We also review the various stances of expert moralists in favour of or against frozen human embryo adoption, an...
The rapid evolution of Assisted Reproduction Techniques (ART) in a few years is generating a multitu...
The "Istanbul Consensus" offers a set of consensus points to classify human embryos into three "qual...
This paper pursues a better interpretation of the new reproductive technologies by making a counterp...
The existence of a large number of frozen human embryos is a major medical and ethical concern. Ther...
The search for IVF efficacy leads to a higher embryo production than it is necessary for implantatio...
Bio-ethical dilemmas of all sorts have been discussed throughout human history, but modern technolog...
Assisted human reproduction allows sterile or infertile people to have children without the natural ...
El avance de la ciencia y de la técnica ha posibilitado la procreación de un ser humano fuera del se...
The issue of the dignity of the human embryo is one of the key questions in bioethics debate today. ...
Presently, the ongoing Catholic debate over the morality of embryo adoption (EA) has yet to be resol...
A criopreservação de embriões tem sido amplamente utilizada como técnica de Reprodução Assistida, pa...
It is estimated that over 400,000 embryos are currently cryopreserved in the United States, and many...
The assisted reproduction technique brings with it several surplus embryos. A review of the situatio...
The assisted reproduction technique brings with it several surplus embryos. A review of the situatio...
In Argentina, access to ART treatments has been regulated since 2013, but the law fails to define a ...
The rapid evolution of Assisted Reproduction Techniques (ART) in a few years is generating a multitu...
The "Istanbul Consensus" offers a set of consensus points to classify human embryos into three "qual...
This paper pursues a better interpretation of the new reproductive technologies by making a counterp...
The existence of a large number of frozen human embryos is a major medical and ethical concern. Ther...
The search for IVF efficacy leads to a higher embryo production than it is necessary for implantatio...
Bio-ethical dilemmas of all sorts have been discussed throughout human history, but modern technolog...
Assisted human reproduction allows sterile or infertile people to have children without the natural ...
El avance de la ciencia y de la técnica ha posibilitado la procreación de un ser humano fuera del se...
The issue of the dignity of the human embryo is one of the key questions in bioethics debate today. ...
Presently, the ongoing Catholic debate over the morality of embryo adoption (EA) has yet to be resol...
A criopreservação de embriões tem sido amplamente utilizada como técnica de Reprodução Assistida, pa...
It is estimated that over 400,000 embryos are currently cryopreserved in the United States, and many...
The assisted reproduction technique brings with it several surplus embryos. A review of the situatio...
The assisted reproduction technique brings with it several surplus embryos. A review of the situatio...
In Argentina, access to ART treatments has been regulated since 2013, but the law fails to define a ...
The rapid evolution of Assisted Reproduction Techniques (ART) in a few years is generating a multitu...
The "Istanbul Consensus" offers a set of consensus points to classify human embryos into three "qual...
This paper pursues a better interpretation of the new reproductive technologies by making a counterp...