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| Autonomy and the limits of assisted reproduction technologies | Bogdan Olaru *
| Abstract
Starting from a case study, this paper investigates some ways in which the Romanian society has reacted to the questions concerning the assisted reproductive technologies. A large public debate has taken place at the beginning of 2005 about the Romanian mother who gave birth at 66 and about whether and how the assisted reproductive technologies may affect the parent-child relationships. I'm going to extend these debates from the objections stirring up the Romanian public discussions to the ethical objections dealing with the assisted reproductive technologies. Using these technologies without taking into account the social and psychological risks that accompany them may lead to various problems for the children. Another significant question is how to deal with the autonomy of decision. This seems to be a central value in the reproductive matters. I?ll show that the disapproving attitude of the Romanian society towards the sexagenarian mother can be explained as reaction to the tendency of conceiving personal autonomy as self-determination and independency and making of it the single central point that counts.
Key words: assisted reproductive technology, autonomy, human dignity
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