ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION

 Assisted method of reproduction in which the sperm is provided typically by mean of

masturbation and is injected into the woman’s reproductive tract through a catheter.
 Old form of fertilizing a woman other than a naturally fertile intercourse.

How Is It Performed?
1. Medication is administered to activate egg development.
2. Semen is obtained by masturbation after a designated few days of refraining from
ejaculation.
3. Seminal processing follows which is characterized by washing and purification of
semen specimen at the laboratory.

Applicability
 Impotency, male sterility
 Couples with immunological irregularities
 Women’s infertility with:
o Endometriosis
o An ovulatory infertility

Main goal: To fertilize a woman for procreation.

Categories
Artificial
Homologous Heterologous
Categories Insemination
Insemination Insemination
Outside Marriage
Artificial insemination Artificial insemination by
Definition
by the husband donor
Fornication
Moral Unnatural means of Worst
Child is considered
distnction procreation Adulterous procedures
illegitimate

Identify what Method of A.I. relates to/applies for each condition.

1. Wife’s problem of not being fertilized via natural intercourse, the husband produces
gametes (by masturbation) and submits for A.I.
2. Under natural intercourse, the sperm cannot get in touch near the cervix (in case of
epispadias or hypospadias)
3. Husband has oligospermia. His Masturbated semen is “centrifuged to increase its
concentration” for possible A.I.
4. Husband has azoospermia. A third party produce sperm to be injected to the wife.
5. Other woman donates ova or the use of her uterus for insemination of sperm of the
husband whose wife is unable to reproduce.

Is Artificial Insemination Moral?

INTRINSICALLLY EVIL based on the following grounds:
1. Transgression of the Will of God expressed in the Law of Nature.
a. Arbitrary exclusion of the Marital Act from procreation
b. Distortion of the meaning and purpose of sexuality
2. Usurpation of God’s Creative Power of Authorship over life.
3. Against human dignity.