Preparation before fertility treatment, when an individual or couple is looking at the implications for themselves and the child of having a child through gamete or embryo donation or using surrogacy. Once a child is born, the way in which the family deals with the child’s identity. The rationale for change The guidelines exclude some individuals and couples from assisted reproductive procedures to create a family Evidence indicates that, in general, people prefer to have as as possible biological relationship to their children. However, some medical or social circumstances will mean that the only way for an individual or couple to have a child is to use a surrogate mother in conjunction with a donated embryo or donated eggs/donated sperm. Impacts of the biological link policy. Single men and male couples may not use embryo donation or donated eggs/donated sperm because they would require a surrogate mother. Single women and partnered women (same sex or heterosexual) who are unable to gestate a pregnancy are also precluded from using embryo donation and donated eggs/donated sperm. In such people may decide to go overseas to use surrogacy in combination with an embryo created from donated eggs together with donated sperm. There have been changes in technology, science and society The reproductive technologies have expanded the opportunities for reproduction. Until comparatively recently, adoption or other arrangements, such as whāngai, were the only options to parents where one of the couple was infertile. It is now possible to use donated eggs, sperm and embryos as well as surrogacy to create a family. As with adoption, these procedures separate genes from biological and gestational relationships. However, assisted reproduction can create relationships that bring increased complexity, depending on the number of parties involved in creating and gestating an embryo, further challenging the traditional concepts of family.
Preparation before fertility treatment, when an individual or couple is looking at the implications for themselves and the child of having a child through gamete or embryo donation or using surrogacy. Once a child is born, the way in which the family deals with the child’s identity. The rationale for change The guidelines exclude some individuals and couples from assisted reproductive procedures to create a family Evidence indicates that, in general, people prefer to have as as possible biological relationship to their children. However, some medical or social circumstances will mean that the only way for an individual or couple to have a child is to use a surrogate mother in conjunction with a donated embryo or donated eggs/donated sperm. Impacts of the biological link policy. Single men and male couples may not use embryo donation or donated eggs/donated sperm because they would require a surrogate mother. Single women and partnered women (same sex or heterosexual) who are unable to gestate a pregnancy are also precluded from using embryo donation and donated eggs/donated sperm. In such people may decide to go overseas to use surrogacy in combination with an embryo created from donated eggs together with donated sperm. There have been changes in technology, science and society The reproductive technologies have expanded the opportunities for reproduction. Until comparatively recently, adoption or other arrangements, such as whāngai, were the only options to parents where one of the couple was infertile. It is now possible to use donated eggs, sperm and embryos as well as surrogacy to create a family. As with adoption, these procedures separate genes from biological and gestational relationships. However, assisted reproduction can create relationships that bring increased complexity, depending on the number of parties involved in creating and gestating an embryo, further challenging the traditional concepts of family.
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