Ethical debate

Medicalization of procreation, whether to limit births or on the contrary to favor them, was one of the major events in the medical history of the late twentieth century. The control of cellular processes for fertilization and early embryonic development has provided many tools to respond to today's increasingly assertive requests of men and women wishing to procreate despite all, when natural procreation is impossible. Medical, ethical and social issues associated with what is now called medical assisted procreation (MAP) are very diverse. Hence the difficulties encountered when they are studied in a global or oversimplified way. The questions are not the same when the use of MAP is motivated by infertility and is part of the traditional social context of the family or when it transgresses it. As shown by this part, issues and debates vary depending on the medical treatment used, the people contributing (biologically or not) in the conception of the child and the type of filiation that results from it.

So how far research and medicine have to go to satisfy the desire of people in lack of child ?