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Assisted reproduction technologies
The health of children conceived by assisted reproduction technologies
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Vic Larcher
Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Trust, Great Ormond Street, London WC1N 3JH, UK; larchv@gosh.nhs.uk
Accepted 23 March 2007
The provision of assisted reproduction technologies needs to operate within a defined ethical framework that safeguards the welfare of all concerned
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Assisted reproduction technologies (ART) account for the conception of around 1% of children born in the UK each year (over 10 000 children).1,2 The primary purpose of ART is the treatment of infertility and the conception and safe delivery of healthy children with the potential to become healthy adults, but some techniques permit embryo selection and testing.3,4 As the range, application and success rates (live births per treatment cycle) of ART have increased, so their consequences for the children produced have become more apparent. Since paediatricians have moral obligations to maximise children’s welfare and to act as their advocates,5 they may have reasonable concerns about the health and welfare of the increasing number of children conceived by ART.
Children born alive have full protection in law that imposes enforceable duties, including that of meeting children’s health needs, on those with parental responsibility.6 Although this legal protection does
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