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Ethico-legal issues related to ovarian tissue transplantation.

TitleEthico-legal issues related to ovarian tissue transplantation.
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2016
AuthorsVoultsos, P., Raikos N., Vasileiadis N., Spiliopoulou C., & Tarlatzis B.
JournalMed Sci Law
Volume56
Issue4
Pagination293-304
Date Published2016 Oct
ISSN2042-1818
Abstract

Ovarian tissue transplantation (OTT) is a promising experimental method which may soon become well-established. In cases of minor oncology, where patients' fertility is seriously threatened by treatment, it may be applied as a unique fertility preservation option. OTT has a dual nature ('organ' and 'gamete'). Many stakeholders are involved, including donor, recipient, child, health-care providers and society at large. There is considerable uncertainty about the long-term consequences of the application of OTT and OT cryopreservation (OTC). Thus, application of OTT gives rise to a number of very different ethico-legal issues and dilemmas which are hard to solve coherently through a principlism-based bioethical approach. This study focuses on such dilemmas and attempts to review them. The role of virtue ethics, which may be combined with principlism, is essential to solve such dilemmas coherently and reasonably. Dealing with conflicts of ethical principles equivalent between them, or moral dilemmas without available answers and mind-sharing in a difficult interpersonal process of decision making, requires a virtue-based ethical approach. Besides, ethico-legal issues related to OTC/OTT are complex issues requiring a multidisciplinary approach (ethical considerations, medical, psychological and social evaluations etc.). We stress the crucial role of multidisciplinary Ethics Committee which is considered indispensable for each reproductive health-care unit practicing OTC/OTT.

DOI10.1177/0025802416657685
Alternate JournalMed Sci Law
PubMed ID27381404

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