Thirty-five years of assisted reproductive technologies in Israel
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- 作者：Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli daphna@research.haifa.ac.ilAuthor Vitae
- 关键词：Israel ; IVF ; privatization ; reproductive technologies ; surrogacy ; third-party reproduction
- 刊名：Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：June 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：2
- 期：Complete
- 页码：16-23
- 全文大小：401 K
- 卷排序：2
文摘
Israel is known as a pronatalist country. Whether due to the Biblical commandment to ‘be fruitful and multiply’ or the traumas of the Holocaust and perennial wars, reproduction is a central life goal for most Israelis. Israeli women bear substantially more children than their counterparts in industrialized countries and view child-rearing as a key life accomplishment. These personal world-view and real-life individual quests take place in a context of equally pronatalist state policies and religious openness to assisted reproductive technologies. In this paper, I outline 35 years of assisted reproductive technologies in Israel by tracing a principal axis in the development of three major technologies of assisted reproduction: the proliferation of IVF-ICSI; the globalization of gamete donation; and the privatization of surrogacy. The paper is based on a policy analysis as well as various studies of assisted reproductive technologies, conducted in Israel over this period.