Aspectos da reprodução humana assistida in vitro e a necessidade de um estatuto jurídico do embrião humano

Abstract

The current study analyses the techniques to be used in human reproduction mainly regarding to its application, side effects and treatment in vitro fertilization process.

Based on our constitutional law and principles of life, health and family planning, this study analyses the modification caused by the introduction of the vitro fertilization techniques in our society in the biological, medical, ethical, philosophical and juridical fields. The main issue analyzed in this study is related to the assisted in vitro human reproduction in Brazil and, in other countries, mainly in the heterogeneous genetic and gestational assisted reproduction

This study also shows the current problems concerning the civil liability in the in vitro application and recommends some legal steps for improving the present in vitro methods and demands procedures. Steps that will assure us a proper and safer vitro fertilization results.

By presenting a bill of law that regulates the present in vitro techniques and elaborates a statute that differentiates and considers the in vitro methods and demands, we will be able to control the side effect consequences of its techniques applications by achieving a better in vitro results. Finally, this study brings up important considerations on the statute of the human embryo in Brazil and all over the world, which should be taken into consideration