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- Title
Halakhic Parameters of ART (Assisted Reproduction Technology).
- Authors
TENDLER, MOSHE DOVID
- Abstract
This paper will focus on several halakhic (legal/ethical/moral) dilemmas resulting from widely used ART (Assisted Reproduction Technology). A basic underlying question is whether a Jewish woman is required to fulfill the command to procreate. Is a woman allowed to risk self-injury in order to produce a child? In order for one woman to donate an egg to another woman, the donor must be prepared with physiologically unsafe dosages of reproductive hormones to force multiple ovulations, and the ovum must be removed surgically. In surrogacy, the surrogate assumes the health stresses of pregnancy and birth. Are both procedures in violation of the Torah law forbidding self-injury even for monetary compensation? Who is the true mother of a child born this way -- the genetic mother or the gestational mother? Does the use of donor sperm raise a concern for accidental incest? The risk is increased by sperm from one donor being inseminated into many recipients. How is the "Jewishness" of such offspring determined?
- Subjects
REPRODUCTIVE technology; HUMAN artificial insemination (Jewish law); HALAKHIC Midrashim
- Publication
B'Or Ha'Torah, 2016, Vol 24, p56
- ISSN
0333-6298
- Publication type
Article