Bio-Ethical Issues In Turkey

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Introduction

IVF (in vitro fertilization ) refers to treatment for infertility , in which eggs are removed from a woman 's body , fertilized with sperm in a laboratory , and then returned to the womb shortly afterwards to continue developing . IVF has been greatly achieved by the Turkish Medicine community such that even individual mothers and couples from other countries hospitals in go into Turkey in to get children through this process . The sperms donated by sperm donors undergo screening in to check their health

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These advances in technologies are not in harmony with the culture and the law governing Turkey . The paces at which the technologies are advancing are greater than the rate at which the society is responding to such changes , especially by those in lower socioeconomic class . But again many people would prefer the idea of surrogate motherhood and oocyte donation to some new techniques that are applied in medical practice today . All over the world , Turkey included , people are still debating on the social and ethical impacts of oocyte donation and surrogacy on the society

According to (Selim , et al 34 , not many studies have been carried out in Turkish society to get their views on surrogate motherhood and oocyte donation . But studies that have been conducted with an aim of investigating the ethical dilemmas faced by the Turkish people on in vitro fertilization and oocyte donation have shown that...