Abstract

ALVAREZ DIAZ, J. A.. An exploratory study regarding the hypothetical human embryo donation in Chile. An. Med. Interna (Madrid) [online]. 2007, vol.24, n.12, pp.579-584. ISSN 0212-7199.

Objective: To explore opinions of patients who undergone to complex ART towards gamete and embryo donation, as well as the reasons to do it or not. Patients and methods: The seat was the Hospital Clínico de la Universidad de Chile. There were interviewed ten participants (seven women, three men), who had undergone at least to one ART, without comprising of donation programs. It was a cross-sectional study of descriptive bioethics, done with ethnographic qualitative methodology with a semistructured interview applying speech analysis to the resulting text. Results: Regarding embryo donation, six participants would accept to donate them, five to fertility therapy and one to research. Regarding the cryopreservation, three participants would always accept it, and three with some restrictions, just one on them would rather to discard instead of donating a cryopreserved embryo. Discussion: It could be suggested: gamete donation is more commented and generally accepted; embryo donation is a more conflicting and less discussed subject, as much to donate as to accept; cryopreservation is a complex subject, commented but also conflicting, whose acceptance or not, as well as the destiny of the probably cryopreserved embryos, depends on the believes that participants have about the origin of the life, personal ethics, and the religion. It could be possible to say that a hypothesis constructed in this study (to be verified in future quantitative researches) is that embryo donation could take place, for therapy of fertility, and exceptionally to research.

Keywords : Embryo disposition; Assisted reproductive technologies (ART); In vitro fertilization (IVF); Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI); Cryopreservation; Chile.

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