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Human Rights To In Vitro Fertilization
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has ruled that the Supreme Court of Costa Rica’s 2000 judgment prohibiting in vitro fertilization (IVF) violated the human right to private and family life, the human right to found and raise a family, and the human right to non-discrimination on grounds of d...
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Brazilian Society of Assisted Reproduction
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9237911/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35761721 http://dx.doi.org/10.5935/1518-0557.20140089 |
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author | Zegers-Hochschild, Fernando Dickens, Bernard M. Dughman-Manzur, Sandra |
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description | The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has ruled that the Supreme Court of Costa Rica’s 2000 judgment prohibiting in vitro fertilization (IVF) violated the human right to private and family life, the human right to found and raise a family, and the human right to non-discrimination on grounds of disability, financial means, or gender. The Court’s conclusions of violations contrary to the American Convention on Human Rights followed from its ruling that, under the Convention, in vitro embryos are not “persons,” and do not possess a right to life. Accordingly, the prohibition of IVF to protect embryos constituted a disproportionate and unjustifiable denial of infertile individuals’ human rights. The Court distinguished fertilization from conception, since conception, unlike fertilization, depends on an embryo’s implantation in a woman’s body. Under human rights law, legal protection of an embryo “from conception” is inapplicable between its creation by fertilization and completion of its implantation in utero. |
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spelling | pubmed-92379112022-06-30 Human Rights To In Vitro Fertilization Zegers-Hochschild, Fernando Dickens, Bernard M. Dughman-Manzur, Sandra JBRA Assist Reprod Opinion Article The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has ruled that the Supreme Court of Costa Rica’s 2000 judgment prohibiting in vitro fertilization (IVF) violated the human right to private and family life, the human right to found and raise a family, and the human right to non-discrimination on grounds of disability, financial means, or gender. The Court’s conclusions of violations contrary to the American Convention on Human Rights followed from its ruling that, under the Convention, in vitro embryos are not “persons,” and do not possess a right to life. Accordingly, the prohibition of IVF to protect embryos constituted a disproportionate and unjustifiable denial of infertile individuals’ human rights. The Court distinguished fertilization from conception, since conception, unlike fertilization, depends on an embryo’s implantation in a woman’s body. Under human rights law, legal protection of an embryo “from conception” is inapplicable between its creation by fertilization and completion of its implantation in utero. Brazilian Society of Assisted Reproduction 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC9237911/ /pubmed/35761721 http://dx.doi.org/10.5935/1518-0557.20140089 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Opinion Article Zegers-Hochschild, Fernando Dickens, Bernard M. Dughman-Manzur, Sandra Human Rights To In Vitro Fertilization |
title | Human Rights To In Vitro Fertilization |
title_full | Human Rights To In Vitro Fertilization |
title_fullStr | Human Rights To In Vitro Fertilization |
title_full_unstemmed | Human Rights To In Vitro Fertilization |
title_short | Human Rights To In Vitro Fertilization |
title_sort | human rights to in vitro fertilization |
topic | Opinion Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9237911/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35761721 http://dx.doi.org/10.5935/1518-0557.20140089 |
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