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Minimally Invasive Embryo Transfer and Embryo Vitrification at the Optimal Embryo Stage in Rabbit Model
Published on: May 16, 2019
[Posthumous assisted reproductive technologies]
1Service de Gynécologie-Obstétrique et Médecine de la Reproduction, Université Paris VI et Hôpital Tenon, 4 rue de la Chine 75020 Paris, France. jemantoine@aol.com
Abstract:
Several types of posthumous ART, all exceptional, can be considered. Using frozen sperm by the wife or concubine results in a conception at a time when the father has been dead for longer or shorter. His ban is broadly consensual in France. Transferring frozen embryos after the man's death raises more questions. The only options in France for the surviving wife are donation to another couple, donation to research or destruction. The National Consultative Ethics Committee was several times favourable to allowing this practice under certain conditions, but it is still prohibited after the 2011 revision of the bioethics laws.
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