Brena Ingrid
Núcleo de Estudios en Derecho y Salud del Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México D.F, México.
Rev Derecho Genoma Hum. 2013 Jan-Jun(38):149-66.
Modern reproductive technology has not been completely accepted and, especially in-vitro fertilization, IVF has generated serious social, political and legal controversies in Latin America. We may distinguish two trends that show us the oppositions; on one hand, the primacy of the embryo's live and its protection during artificial reproductive process and on the other, the primacy of liberal access to assisted reproduction techniques. The debate came to the fore, after a ruling by the Costa Rica's Constitutional Chamber who banned de IVF in 2000. The damaged couples after fulfilling the process toward the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, present a petition to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. The Court's sentence and its arguments will be the subject of these comments as well that will allow to considered that both of them should be considered as a very important step towards the construction of a secular liberal vision over the assisted reproduction in Latin America.
现代生殖技术尚未被完全接受，尤其是体外受精（IVF），在拉丁美洲引发了严重的社会、政治和法律争议。我们可以区分出两种呈现对立观点的趋势：一方面是胚胎生命在人工生殖过程中的首要地位及其保护，另一方面是辅助生殖技术自由获取的首要地位。在哥斯达黎加宪法法庭于2000年禁止体外受精的裁决之后，这场辩论凸显出来。那些在完成相关程序后受到影响的夫妇向美洲人权委员会提出申诉，随后又向美洲人权法院提交了请愿书。法院的判决及其论据将是这些评论的主题，这也将使我们认识到，它们都应被视为在拉丁美洲构建关于辅助生殖的世俗自由主义观念方面迈出的非常重要的一步。
