From transgression to pragmatism in reproductive medicine.

It is difficult to harmonise faith and the desire to follow religious teachings and obligations on the one hand, and scientific advances and their use for the benefit of suffering humanity on the other. This is an especially delicate matter for patients and health professionals in reproductive medicine. It deals with the conflicting issues of contraception, termination of pregnancy, assisted reproduction, cloning, stem cells and embryo research.

[Bioethics and the 21st century, the physician's point of view].

In the field of human procreation, the problems raised by bioethics are multiple and complex. First, there is the request from couples and individuals with regards to the management of procreation, not only the negative requests, be it contraception or abortion, but also the positive requests concerning medically assisted procreation. Then there is the practitioner's response to the request, particularly for assisted procreation.