Top religious body in Turkey says that IVF should be banned
Turkey’s top religious affairs body has said that surrogate motherhood is religiously unacceptable as it contains elements of adultery.
According to Hurriyet Daily News, The Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) announced in a statement that in vitro fertilization between unmarried individuals offended “humane feelings.”
The council, established in 1924 to answer questions regarding Islam and the Islamic lifestyle, said that IVF was permissible so long as the sperm and ovum fertilized belong to a married couple and that the ovum remains with the wife rather than “inside a stranger’s womb.”
The statement reportedly said: “An in vitro fertilization process that starts and finalizes between individuals who not de facto married is religiously not acceptable as it offends humane feelings and contains elements of adultery”
It added that as long as it was medically proven that IVF would not have a negative effect on either of the parents of the child then it was an acceptable method to have a child.
Source: independent.co.uk
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