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Hum. Reprod. Advance Access originally published online on September 14, 2008
Human Reproduction 2008 23(12):2867-2868; doi:10.1093/humrep/den341
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Letters to the Editor

Reply: Adapting infertility treatment to religious beliefs

Guido Pennings1 for the ESHRE Task Force on Ethics and Law

Department of Philosophy and Moral Science, Bioethics Institute Ghent (BIG), Ghent University, Blandijnberg 2, B-9000 Gent, Belgium

1 Tel/Fax: +32-16-620-767; E-mail: guido.pennings@ugent.be

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Sir,

The letter by Thomas (2008)Go raises an interesting question: to what extent do practitioners have a duty to look for treatment adapted to the religious and ethical values of the patients? In the field of medically assisted reproduction, the clinicians tackle subfertility as a scientific (mechanical–technical) challenge. Something is preventing conception and/or pregnancy and that something should be eliminated. IVF was originally a solution for blocked tubes. Theoretically, a purely technical solution ignores religious, ethical and cultural considerations. In reality, there is always interaction between such considerations and the solution because selecting . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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