[Results of heterologous artificial insemination, ethical- deontological implications]

Fourteen female patients married to infertile men were artificially inseminated with the semen of unknown donors within 1985-1987. Over 150 inseminations (no complications except sporadic pain) produced 7 pregnancies out of which 5 were finished with the delivery of healthy babies, one was terminated in the seventh week with abortion. Fate of the remaining pregnancy is unknown. Ethical-legal implications of AID, the problem of donors and classification of semen, and necessity to store the semen at the temperature of liquid nitrogen due to the risk of AID are emphasized.