1- Department of Jurisprudence and Law, Varamin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Varamin, Iran.
Abstract:
Background and Aim: This article seeks to explain the right to artificial insemination from the perspective of Imami jurisprudence and international documents. In this regard, it is considered to examine international legal approaches such as: international human rights documents, including the World Health Organization. Also, from the point of view of jurisprudence, the positive and negative views raised by the jurists are discussed.
Method: This article is qualitative and its method is analytical and descriptive and uses documentary sources.
Ethical Considerations: Ethical principles, including accurate citation and use of sources, have been observed in accordance with the principles of referencing.
Results: International documents, with a general and universal view, consider the right to artificial fertility as one of the dimensions of the right to health and hygiene, which requires support from global human rights. Imamiyyah jurisprudence also has positive and negative views in this field, which emphasize the "judgment" of a child born from artificial insemination and respecting the rights of a child born from insemination.
Conclusion: International documents on different types of artificial fertility and the rights of participants in this method, including men, women and children, are considered equal to other citizens and in Imamiyyah jurisprudence, despite some differences, on the observance Sharia principles including not seeing the appearance of a person who is using this method and not doing it by alien couples are unanimous.
Please cite this article as:
Taheri S, Afzalnejad NA, Asadi H. Artificial Fertility from the Perspective of International Documents and Imami Jurisprudence: A Human Right. Medical Law Journal. 2023; 17(58): e70.
Type of Study:
Original Article |
Received: 2023/01/9 | Accepted: 2023/05/3