Other possible alternatives to assisted fertilisation

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Other possible alternatives to assisted fertilisation

A new perspective on life

Some couples cannot fulfil their wish for a child even after long and complex treatments. For these couples such an outcome can be very difficult to accept. To accept the end of hope in the desire for a child is a long and painful process. Some couples are unable to cope with the fact that they, of all people, cannot have children. In these cases psychological counselling can help open new perspectives on life.
Other couples find the end of their fertility treatment a relief. Having a clear-cut answer after months or years of uncertainty with the accompanying emotional stress of the unknown can be positive. They can go back to a sexual life without calendars and medication and move on to enjoy other common interests.

Adoption

Many couples discover new interests after abortive IVF attempts: new hobbies, a re-newed interest in work and in social projects. However there are also couples who cannot imagine their lives without children. Adoption can be an alternative for them.

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It is important to ensure that adoptive parents are conscious of the needs of an adopted child, aware of the lifetime of love and care the child will require and that they are careful not to transfer to the adopted child all the hopes and desires they had for a child of their own. One has to be conscious that the adopted child is not genetically related and was born to other parents. The success of an adoption depends absolutely on the realistic expectations and attitudes of the adopting family towards the new family member. The adoption authorities are legally obliged to make their decisions based entirely on the well being of the child particularly as, according to the law, an adopted child has identical rights to a biological child.

Embryo adoption

In Austria surplus embryos resulting from IVF treatment must routinely be destroyed after 10 years. However we intend to start an Austrian wide discussion on embryo adoption as it is our belief that all embryos should be respected and viewed as a future potential life. In Germany and Italy the debate over embryo adoption is gaining intensity, this is not yet the case in Austria. The reasons for this are many and varied. The Catholic Church which in Italy supports the adoption of surplus embryos cannot agree on its position on this issue in Austria. In a private discussion with the diocesan bishop Dr Klaus Küng (the representative for the Ethical Commission of the Bishop's Conference), Dr Leonhard Loimer (from the KinderWunschKlinik) could only discern negative views. It is a great pity that this aspect of a right for life is not yet recognised by the Catholic Church in Austria!