CURRENT ETHICAL DILEMMAS IN ASSISTED REPRODUCTION

Assisted reproduction in general is replete with ethical issues, eithe r revolving around the status of the embryo or the possible conflict b etween the duty of care to prospective parents, and the responsibility of the carer to the potential offspring; duties to intermediaries in gamete donation are yet another dimension, which may wane in view of t he more recent technique of ICSI, a radical transformation in the trea tment of male infertility. Specific problems relating to andrology are analysed within the larger context of different ethical theories.