artificial insemination
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INSTITUTE FOR CONTINUING
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AT
TOURO COLLEGE
NATIONAL JEWISH INSTITUTE
FOR CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL
EDUCATION
ASSISTED REPRODUCTION
MEDICINE, CULTURE AND
ETHICS
ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION IN THE TALMUD
Spermatozoal dysfunction
Infertility
WHY USE DONOR SPERM?
Primary pathologies of male reproductive system
Environmental life style factors Systemic pathologies
Male accessory gland infection
Immature / Abnormal Spermatoza
Prolonged stasis of spermatozoa in the
epididymis or in transit
Drugs Smoking Pollution & Radiation
Treatment of underlying pathologyAntioxidant supplementation
Avoiding factors promoting ROS gene value
Diabetes
Cancer
Systemic Infection
Evaluation for oxidative stress
WHY USE DONOR SPERM?
Affected Father Normal Mother
D n n n
D n D nn n n n
Affected
female
Normal
male
Affected
male
Normal
female
SPERM DONATION
The Integrity of the Relationship
Challenges
SPERM DONATION
You shall not lie carnally giving seed to your neighbor’s wife. – Leviticus 18:20
There is no proof from the Talmud to say that [insemination] through a bath is permitted for a married woman. As the verse says “You shall not lie carnally giving seed to your neighbor’s wife.” . . .
Although in such a case there is no “carnal relations,” there is “giving of seed,” and who can guarantee that the intention of the verse is not also to prohibit the “giving of seed” to a married woman even without sexual relations?
Perhaps the reason the Torah speaks about sexual relations is because that’s the usual way; but perhaps just like sexual relations without insemination is prohibited, insemination without sexual relations is prohibited.
Rabbi Eliezer Waldenburg (1915-2006)
SPERM DONATION
Challenges
The Institution of marriage
SPERM DONATION
The principal motives for the revulsion against the practice is
the fear of the abuses to which its legalization would lead,
however great the benefits may be in individual cases.
By reducing human generation to stud-farming methods, AID
severs the link between the procreation of children and
marriage, indispensable to the maintenance of the family as
the most basic and sacred unit of human society. It would
enable women to satisfy their craving for children without
the necessity to have homes or husbands.
– Rabbi Dr. Immanuel Jakobovits (1921 – 1999)
SPERM DONATION
Challenges
Clarity of parentage
TWO WIVES, ONE PROVINCE
Rabbi Eliezer ben Ya’akov said,
“A man should not marry one
woman in one province and
another woman in another
province lest [the children] be
paired with each other, resulting
in a brother marrying a sister.”
– Talmud, Yevamot 37b
PROBLEMS WITH DONOR SPERM
INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION
SAGE ADVICE
Husband has not fulfilled his obligation
May lead to strife
SAGE ADVICE
Non-Jewish
donors
Not considered Adultery Child is not Illegitimate Presumption: donor not Jewish
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