ASPECTOS BIOÉTICOS DEL MANEJO DE EMBRIONES EN LA FERTILIZACIÓN ASISTIDA EN EL DISTRITO FEDERAL

Abstract

Assisted Reproductive Techniques (ART) are procedures that have been used for more than 30 years, when the first test-tube girl was born (Lowis Brown in 1978) and with amazement was the subject of much criticism on behalf of the public and the scientific community of that time. Since then, up to now, thousands of children have been born with the use of these techniques that over time have been refined and came to deal with a problem that was growing increasingly, as it is infertility due to both feminine and masculine causes. Mexico, did not stay behind in this crusade of new technology, and it is ten years after the first birth by in vitro fertilization that it starts with the use of ART, with a lot of technical information on their scientific journals and just a little that approached ethical and legal issues, being extremely scarce about the handling of embryos, including the remaining frozen ones. The accelerated evolution on biotechnology and bioinformatics have set aside the human being as jeans of all investigation and scientific development; that is why, it is necessary to regulate the use of ART in favor of the person, as a whole, from the value of the life that begins since their conception to their development, their reproduction, their maturity, old age, and death. A bioethical analysis is carried out about the use of the remaining embryos from the assisted reproductive techniques, which although not very clear in the stance of their handling, a midpoint can be reached about the meaning of embryo, considering that it has a genome of its own that gives him an identity among human beings.