Repensar e interpelar las técnicas de reproducción asistida en clave feminista

Abstract

The article aims to critically review the complex interaction between autonomy, freedom, and consent within the field of reproductive justice in light of the right to enjoy the benefits of science –especially assisted reproductive technologies– as stated in an emblematic case of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights such as “Artavia Murillo and others (“In vitro fertilization”) v. Costa Rica. Preliminary Objections, Merits, Reparations and Costs” dated November 28, 2012, updating the regional standards from the necessary intersectional approach and feminist perspective. Have ART managed to break or reaffirm the not so transparent threads between pregnant bodies, motherhood and autonomy/freedom? Has access to plural filiation thanks to assisted reproduction managed to dismantle the classic woman-mother dichotomy? What are the current tensions in the field of reproductive justice on which legal feminisms would have pending contributions in the form of a profound evaluation? It is about updating the debate on ART from another place of clear – and welcome – discomfort as feminisms do, daring to put in crisis a classic civilist perspective that focuses on assisted reproduction as a filial issue. This critical review entails the need to appeal to the notion of “reproductive justice” as opposed to the concept of assisted reproduction technologies.