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Between Advanced Medical Technology and Prayer: Infertility Treatment in Post-socialist Poland

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Radkowska-Walkowicz M.
Sociologický časopis. Czech Sociological Review
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2014
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vol. 50
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issue 6
939-960
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In Poland, invitro fertilisation technology (IVF) has been in use for over 25 years, garnering success and social approval. However, in 2007, a heated debate erupted on the moral, legal and economic aspects of IVF. A growing chorus of emphatic Catholic voices calls for IVF to be banned. This paper focuses on ‘naprotechnology’, a new actor and a fresh card in Poland’s IVF debate. This method of treating infertility in accordance with the teachings of the Catholic Church is promoted as a cheaper and more effective alternative to IVF. Naprotechnology is primarily based on close observation of the female fertility cycle, but also involves pharmacological or surgical treatments. Most Polish gynecologists specialising in infertility treatments are strongly critical of the method, which is seldom referenced in international medical literature. Nonetheless, naprotechnology has considerable exposure in major Polish media outlets. The method has been debated in the Polish Parliament and is promoted by many politicians. The author argues that, despite the possible perception of naprotechnology as an emancipating force, it is in fact a form of a colonisation of the female body and strengthens traditional gender imagery and modern forms of discipline (control, confession, body regimes).
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Naprotechnologia a zapłodnienie in vitro – różnica antropologiczna

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Kupczak J.
Forum Teologiczne
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2011
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vol. 12
177-190
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The essay discusses a disagreement occurring in ethical assessment of in vitro fertilisation and some of the procedures involved in infertility treatment in NaProTechnology (Natural Procreative Technology). The disagreement has its roots in two fundamental principles: absolute respect for human life and concern for a truly human beginning of life. These principles are shown in the light of Christian anthropology, which facilitates its better understanding, and names the causes for their rejection in today’s culture. This rejection drives its force from the changes that have been taking place in modern times in understanding man and nature. Appreciation of nature, including human nature, is no longer strong enough to hold ethical norms. Modern culture treats nature as something plastic and dumb, where man fulfills his rationality and freedom, being himself the only source and maker of all ethical norms. Such treatment of nature renders proper understanding of the Christian ethics impossible, especially where it calls for a behaviour according to nature or warns against that contrary to nature. Only return to the classical idea of nature, enriched by Christian theology of creation, enables us to understand and accept the ethical norms discussed in this essay.
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