Ekechi-Agwu Chinelo A, Nwafor Anthony O
Department of Sociology, University of Lagos, Nigeria.
School of Law, University of Venda, South Africa.
Afr J Reprod Health. 2020 Dec;24(4):82-93. doi: 10.29063/ajrh2020/v24i4.9.
Assisted reproductive technologies (ART), are innovative, non-coital medical procreative procedures, that have brought respite to a number of childless persons and couples, just as it also raises a number of ethical and medico-legal issues. A number of countries including Nigeria, are still struggling to find the appropriate legal framework to provide guidelines for this reproductive process to curtail inherent unethical practices associated with that development. The paper explores the available regulatory instruments in Nigeria and in cognate jurisdictions such as Australia and the United Kingdom, through a comparative study to ascertain the efficacy of the existing instruments in ensuring that unethical practices and abuses associated with ART are eradicated. The findings indicate that the regulatory instrument in Nigeria requires significant improvement in line with the legal frameworks in operation in the cognate jurisdictions to effectively guard against potential unethical practices and abuses associated with the application of ART.
辅助生殖技术（ART）是创新的、非性交的医学生殖程序，它为许多无子女的个人和夫妇带来了慰藉，但同时也引发了一些伦理和医学法律问题。包括尼日利亚在内的许多国家仍在努力寻找合适的法律框架，为这一生殖过程提供指导方针，以减少与该发展相关的固有不道德行为。本文通过比较研究，探讨了尼日利亚以及澳大利亚和英国等相关司法管辖区现有的监管手段，以确定现有手段在确保根除与辅助生殖技术相关的不道德行为和滥用行为方面的效力。研究结果表明，尼日利亚的监管手段需要根据相关司法管辖区现行的法律框架进行重大改进，以有效防范与辅助生殖技术应用相关的潜在不道德行为和滥用行为。
