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KMID : 1011120130070020001
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Bioethics Policy Studies
2013 Volume.7 No. 2 p.1 ~ p.21
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Assisted Reproductive Technology and Parenthood: between Law and Philosophy
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Park Joon-Seok
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Abstract
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The latest developments of assisted reproductive technology give birth to the problems of epistemology as well as of regulation by law. The problems of regulation by law include the problem of permissibility and the problem of parenthood. In spite of the fact that much attention has been paid to each problem, we are still unequipped by clear legislation and competent judicial decisions.
The problems of epistemology, on the other hand, has been addressed to by the bioethical philosophers and theorists, especially in many respects to the problem of human self-understanding including the issue of human enhancement.
However, this paper shows the fact that the developments of assisted reproductive technology make the very concept of parenthood changed. It was neither the kind of “essentially contested concept”, nor the concept inviting serious disagreement in its usage among people. But we are somewhat lost without the secure concept of parenthood, although we still feel parenthood to be known evidently to ourselves.
We cannot fully understand the ethical and legal implications of the assisted reproductive technology, unless we take into account the problem of conceptual change within the parenthood, which can be better seen by employing the concept/conception distinction.
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KEYWORD
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assisted reproductive technology, parenthood, surrogate mother, concept, conception
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