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Enduring politics: the culture of obstacles in legislating for assisted reproduction technologies in Ireland()
Assisted reproductive technology has become a normalized part of reproductive medicine in many countries around the world. Access, however, is uneven and inconsistent, facilitated and restricted by such factors as affordability, social and moral acceptance or refusal and local cultures of medical pr...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5952652/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29774259 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rbms.2016.09.004 |
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description | Assisted reproductive technology has become a normalized part of reproductive medicine in many countries around the world. Access, however, is uneven and inconsistent, facilitated and restricted by such factors as affordability, social and moral acceptance or refusal and local cultures of medical practice. In Ireland, assisted reproductive technology has been available since 1987 but remains unregulated by legislation. This creates an uncertain and untenable legal circumstance given the contested issues related to constitutional protection of the right to life of the unborn and the indeterminate legal status of embryos in vitro. This paper examines the impact of an enduring political impasse. It explores how clinical assisted reproductive technology services in Ireland operate both inside and outside dominant institutional frameworks, meeting a pronatalist and pro-family social and political agenda, while sometimes contradicting the pro-life politics that has continued to shape women’s reproductive lives. The medical approaches to infertility thus intersect with the ongoing debates around abortion, the failure of the government to regulate, and notions of embodied motherhood and responsibility within changing meanings of family and kinship. At the same time women and their partners seek assisted reproductive technology treatment in other countries throughout the European Union where laws differ and availability of services varies. A decade has passed since the Commission on Assisted Human Reproduction in Ireland released its recommendations; the enduring legislative vacuum leaves women, families and practitioners in potential legal limbo. |
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spelling | pubmed-59526522018-05-17 Enduring politics: the culture of obstacles in legislating for assisted reproduction technologies in Ireland() Allison, Jill Reprod Biomed Soc Online Brocher Symposium: Between Policy and Practice - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Equitable Access to Healthcare Assisted reproductive technology has become a normalized part of reproductive medicine in many countries around the world. Access, however, is uneven and inconsistent, facilitated and restricted by such factors as affordability, social and moral acceptance or refusal and local cultures of medical practice. In Ireland, assisted reproductive technology has been available since 1987 but remains unregulated by legislation. This creates an uncertain and untenable legal circumstance given the contested issues related to constitutional protection of the right to life of the unborn and the indeterminate legal status of embryos in vitro. This paper examines the impact of an enduring political impasse. It explores how clinical assisted reproductive technology services in Ireland operate both inside and outside dominant institutional frameworks, meeting a pronatalist and pro-family social and political agenda, while sometimes contradicting the pro-life politics that has continued to shape women’s reproductive lives. The medical approaches to infertility thus intersect with the ongoing debates around abortion, the failure of the government to regulate, and notions of embodied motherhood and responsibility within changing meanings of family and kinship. At the same time women and their partners seek assisted reproductive technology treatment in other countries throughout the European Union where laws differ and availability of services varies. A decade has passed since the Commission on Assisted Human Reproduction in Ireland released its recommendations; the enduring legislative vacuum leaves women, families and practitioners in potential legal limbo. Elsevier 2016-12-13 /pmc/articles/PMC5952652/ /pubmed/29774259 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rbms.2016.09.004 Text en © 2016 The Author http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Brocher Symposium: Between Policy and Practice - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Equitable Access to Healthcare Allison, Jill Enduring politics: the culture of obstacles in legislating for assisted reproduction technologies in Ireland() |
title | Enduring politics: the culture of obstacles in legislating for assisted reproduction technologies in Ireland() |
title_full | Enduring politics: the culture of obstacles in legislating for assisted reproduction technologies in Ireland() |
title_fullStr | Enduring politics: the culture of obstacles in legislating for assisted reproduction technologies in Ireland() |
title_full_unstemmed | Enduring politics: the culture of obstacles in legislating for assisted reproduction technologies in Ireland() |
title_short | Enduring politics: the culture of obstacles in legislating for assisted reproduction technologies in Ireland() |
title_sort | enduring politics: the culture of obstacles in legislating for assisted reproduction technologies in ireland() |
topic | Brocher Symposium: Between Policy and Practice - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Equitable Access to Healthcare |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5952652/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29774259 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rbms.2016.09.004 |
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