WOMENS’ RIGHT TO HEALTH IN THE FACE OF NEW REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES

Angela Aparisi Miralles, University of Navarra

Abstract

Abstract New reproductive technologies are based, to a great extent, on ostensibly coherent and articulate justificatory discourse, as well as on a concrete view of the woman. Certain assumptions are presented as axioms or “indisputable truths.” However, upon careful analysis it is revealed that far from being neutral or “real” facts, we find ourselves in the face of reductionisms, imprecisions, ideological constructs – clearly patriarchal – and even outright fallacies. Among them we can mention infertility being presented as the inability to fulfil oneself, the reduction of maternity to biological maternity, the consideration of infertility as an exclusively woman’s illness, and the likening of infertility to sterility. As a consequence, the woman’s human right to health is made vulnerable and violated. Key words: New reproductive technologies, woman, infertility, sterility, human right to health.