Legal and ethical problems in assisted reproduction--case report

Prudil, L.; Pilka, L.

Ceska Gynekologie 67(3): 174-177

2002


ISSN/ISBN: 1210-7832
PMID: 12078556
Document Number: 546585
The objective of the study is to evaluate legal and ethical aspects of the assisted reproduction in the Czech Republic. These aspects are described in the context of the concrete case. Case report. Department of Social Medicine, Medical and Health Care Administration Faculty of the Masaryk University, Brno and Centre of the Reproductive Medicine Zlín. The description of the concrete case that happened in the Czech Republic. A widow asked for the artificial insemination using the sperm of her deceased husband. It was concluded that there is absolutely insufficient legal regulation of the assisted reproduction techniques, it does not respond to the development of the medical knowledge and it responds insufficiently to the ethical dilemmas concerning the assisted reproduction.

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