HETEROLOGOUS ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION: BIOETHICAL AND LEGAL IMPLICATIONS

Abstract

Objective: To focus on the bioethical and legal implications of heterologous artificial insemination, especially regarding to conflicts between the right to the genetic identity of that who was conceived and the right to privacy of the donor of genetic material. Material and Methods: This is a research of bibliographic nature consubstantiated in the literature concerning the investigated theme. Results: The incidence of fertility problems is common in the population. These difficulties cause suffering to those who wish to be parents, but cannot conceive children by the natural method. Heterologous artificial insemination constitutes a type of assisted reproduction in increased use, which brings bioethical and legal impacts. From the bibliographic survey, it was found that given the ethical and moral challenges offered by the technique of heterologous assisted reproduction, Brazilian law is overcome, because it is not in the law court a specific law to regulate the situation of those involved in the process: social parents, parents and the born person, based on the principle of human dignity. Conclusion: The study shows that, legally, fatherhood is constructed and stands in affection and not in genetic inheritance. This way, a person that was born in this process is missing the opportunity to know their origins. DESCRIPTORES: Insemination, Artificial, Heterologous. Bioethics. Legislation.