Abstract
The development of technological opportunities and societal change are getting faster. Biomedical disciplines are faced with questions about what we have the right, what our duty is and what the individual and society are responsible for.
Can we realize everything that will allow us the results of scientific research? What are the (unborn) children's rights in today's world? Will the principles of a conservative society or the commercial or particular interests of pressure groups and minorities that promote their interests often contradict human nature? Where are the limits of solidarity and the right to reproductive health, and what resources are we supposed to cover? More or less informed lay and professional public are not enough to follow all the trends in these areas.Therefore, most of the population can not determine, from ignorance, indifference or misconduct, the extent to which we may (may) go and what is still morally or legally acceptable. Revolutionary methods of genetic engineering, manipulation of human games, sex conversions of current or potential parents, surrogate motherhood, recurrent changes in sexual orientation and identification, and the absence of flexibility in partner cohabitation combined with assisted reproduction brings us practically to the limit of everything.
The potential of reproductive medicine offers possibilities that are not always in line with naturally accepted biological capacities. For infertile couples, assisted reproduction is a great benefit and gives hopelessly childless couples real hope for their own child.
However, every technology is misleading. It will depend on the company where it will go and what its real control mechanisms will be, so that assisted reproduction does not become the method by which patients with a clear diagnosis of infertility become clients or business partners who buy a baby "tailored" when they're going to make them.
Transplantation of uterus to transsexuals is not being done, but "production" of children from genetically modified gametes in artificial uterines "does not take place", but it is already mentioned at conferences. Applying scientific results and reflecting positive social changes in practical medicine is extremely desirable.
But to find a border where regulation already limits individuals to human rights, and when it is already necessary to defend the consistency and functioning of society, it is complex. It is clear that since the birth of the first child from a 1978 test tube, we have solved cardinal questions about assisted reproduction techniques that have become a routine method for the treatment of a sterile pair.However, we are faced with a challenge that is paradoxically perhaps even more difficult: to reconcile these possibilities to match the interests, needs, ideological-moral, but also economically rational possibilities and pluralistic demands of the people in advanced societies, while not inconsistent with biological laws and conventions.