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Within the international community of persons interested in biomedical ethics, a striking variety of issues related to in vitro fertilization are being debated. Even with regard to what is often called the “simple case,” that is, fertilization of a woman’s ova by her husband’s sperm for transfer back to her uterus, the questions are myriad.
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Tauer, C.A. (1997). Donum Vitae: Dissenting Opinions on the “Simple Case” of In Vitro Fertilization. In: Wildes, K.W. (eds) Infertility. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 53. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0269-5_9
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