ANTH 2170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Embryo Donation, Transvaginal Oocyte Retrieval, Female Infertility
24 Jul 2020
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Making muslim babies: ivf and gamete donation in sunni vs shi"a. Islam. culture, medicine and psychiatry, 30(4):427-450. focuses on the local moral worlds of infertile muslims as they attempt to make, in the religiously correct fashion, muslim babies at in vitro fertilization (ivf) clinics in egypt and lebanon. 1980 - authoritative fatwas issued from egypt"s al-azhar university suggested that ivf and similar technologies are permissible as long as they do not involve any form of third- party donation (of sperm, eggs, embryos, or uteruses). Late 1990s - difference in opinion over third-party gamete donation have occurred between sunni and shi"ite muslims, with iran"s leading ayatollah permitting gamete donation under certain conditions. This iranian fatwa has had profound implications for the country of lebanon, where a. Based on three periods of ethnographic research in egyptian and lebanese ivf clinics, this paper explores official and unofficial religious discourses surrounding the practice of.
