UTICAJ ASISTIRANE REPRODUKTIVNE TEHNOLOGIJE NA PORODICU I RODITELJSTVO U SAVREMENOM DRUŠTVU
THE INFLUENCE OF ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY ON THE FAMILY AND PARENTHING IN MODERN SOCIETY

Summary/Abstract: A new reality and a revolutionary change in the creation and birth are brought by the placement of these processes in laboratory conditions. Persons living in heterosexual or homosexual marital/partnership relations and women living alone, independent of their reproductive cycle, are enabled a parental role (biologically and/or socially) through biomedically and technologically mediated (and controlled) production and reproduction of human life using assisted reproductive technology. A child born in this way can be biologically or genetically related to both or to one of the social parents. The application of the practice of assisted reproduction expands (makes more flexible) the boundaries of nature and culture, as far as the law allows, thus transforming social and cultural patterns and understanding of conventional (sociological) concepts of marriage/partnership, parental roles, kinship and gender equality, and extends the goal of this practice beyond the infertility treatment. The widespread use of assisted reproductive technology and its global expansion have brought numerous challenges at the individual and social level. All this has stimulated feminist debates on the way in which the relationship between bio-medical and technological production and socio-biological reproduction of human life is established or lost, the identification of gender specificity of genetics and new reproductive technology, commodification of reproductive work of women, etc.

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