A REVIEW OF AN ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION & IT’S MEDICO - LEGAL ASPECTS

Abstract

In this modern era our medical science is developing their techniques day by day to treat the diseases related to human being, Artificial insemination technique is one of them. In today’s fast life there are number of cases of infertility. This is due to the stress factor and the changing life style with the increase in marital age and late diagnosis of infertility, artificial insemination is a widely used method. Before advising this method the doctors should be aware of its medico-legal aspects as it may be troublesome for them later. Also the doctors should give the patient a clear idea of the medico-legal aspects as it may later cause problems. Now a day’s our Indian society also have no problems in this technique and they also accept child who is born from either AIH (Artificial insemination homologous / husband) or AID (Artificial insemination by donor). Some times in case of AID there are many medico-legal problems like – Legitimacy, Adultery, and Incest and Psychological aspects. This article mainly focuses light over medico-legal aspects in artificial insemination.