Abstract
Reproduction and its Discontents: The Forest of Symbols in Gamete Donation
Highlights
IntroductionGamete donation is a biomedical practice the purpose of which is to enable people who suffer from certain types of infertility ( having to do with the quality of their gametes) to reproduce by using other people’s gametes
Gamete donation is a biomedical practice the purpose of which is to enable people who suffer from certain types of infertility to reproduce by using other people’s gametes
The possibility of gamete donation originates in what we initially thought was a Western definition of family relationships, and in particular those of maternity and paternity, as love relationships
Summary
Gamete donation is a biomedical practice the purpose of which is to enable people who suffer from certain types of infertility ( having to do with the quality of their gametes) to reproduce by using other people’s gametes. Due to the fact they find themselves in that particular situation (i.e. suffering from a kind of infertility that prevents them from using their own gametes) they decide to subordinate the value of genetic continuity to the value of love, which in this case is, in Schneider’s terms, cognatic love. This cognatic love (the love of parents for their children), which in gamete donation becomes the main constituent of family relationships at the expense of genetic continuity, has two main characteristics. There are sound reasons to believe that all female mammals are instinctively predisposed to feel a strong attachment to the babies they themselves deliver Those proxies for gene sharing cannot be applied to fathers. Women attach themselves to the babies born through egg donation because the cues that activate
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