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Most ethical evaluations of in vitro fertilization (IVF) focus on two important moral considerations. They tend to analyze this whole cluster of new reproductive technologies in terms of their impact (1) on the inviolable sanctity and dignity of every human life and (2) on the relationship between sexuality, marriage and procreation. Questions such as these dominate the moral literature on IVF: what is the nature of the moral relationship between sexuality, marriage and procreation? Is it a necessary relation? In what sense? Is a zygote a human person? Or, as the American Fertility Society names its governing norm, is each person involved in these procedures “integrally and adequately considered”? Traditional arguments revolve around both the validity of these two principles and their applicability to IVF.
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Jung, P.B. (1997). What Price Fertility?. In: Wildes, K.W. (eds) Infertility. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 53. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0269-5_11
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