Abstract
Israel is known as a pronatalist country. Whether due to the Biblical commandment to ‘be fruitful and multiply’ or the traumas of the Holocaust and perennial wars, reproduction is a central life goal for most Israelis. Israeli women bear substantially more children than their counterparts in industrialized countries and view child-rearing as a key life accomplishment. These personal world-view and real-life individual quests take place in a context of equally pronatalist state policies and religious openness to assisted reproductive technologies. In this paper, I outline 35 years of assisted reproductive technologies in Israel by tracing a principal axis in the development of three major technologies of assisted reproduction: the proliferation of IVF-ICSI; the globalization of gamete donation; and the privatization of surrogacy. The paper is based on a policy analysis as well as various studies of assisted reproductive technologies, conducted in Israel over this period.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 16-23 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Reproductive Biomedicine and Society Online |
Volume | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Jun 2016 |
Bibliographical note
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Keywords
- IVF
- Israel
- privatization
- reproductive technologies
- surrogacy
- third-party reproduction
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Health(social science)
- Cultural Studies
- Reproductive Medicine
- Developmental Biology