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Medically Assisted Procreation: European Legislation and Ensuing Ethical Issues

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The history of artificial fertilization shows that such techniques was originally meant as therapy for infertility in heterosexual couples because the element of biological lineage is no longer the foundational value on which to base procreation. Medically assisted procreation is by now a deeply rooted phenomenon in modern society, and appears to be constantly growing [1].

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  1. Department of Anatomical, Histological, Forensic and Orthopaedic Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Gianluca Montanari Vergallo & Simona Zaami

  2. Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics, Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia

    Radmila Sparic

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  1. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Santa Maria Hospital, GVM Care and Research, Bari, Italy

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  2. Center of Medically Assisted Procreation, MOMO’ fertiLIFE Srl, Bisceglie, Italy

    Domenico Baldini

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Montanari Vergallo, G., Zaami, S., Sparic, R. (2020). Medically Assisted Procreation: European Legislation and Ensuing Ethical Issues. In: Malvasi, A., Baldini, D. (eds) Pick Up and Oocyte Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28741-2_22

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