Delaying reproduction and cryopreserving oocytes and sperm is a tendency on the rise. Although “social freezing” (not for medical reasons) of gametes is legitimate, its ethical and social aspects are being debated. Assisted reproduction and cryopreservation, in combination with gestational surrogacy, are nearing ectogenesis. Psychological and moral questions coming up before, during and after this process implicatethe clinical psychologist who must keep up with what cryotechniques are, or will be, capable of. We discuss the responsibilities of delayed parenting towards the child-to-be, not only the not-yet-born but also the not-yet-conceived. These rapid developments in reproduction are producing medical, social and legal indications of a formal separation between procreation and sexual activity, a differentiation which will specify responsibilities in the first whilst respecting personal choice in the second. The individual reasons for and psychological consequences of delayed reproduction are of social interest.
La procreación aplazada y la criopreservación de óvulos y esperma son tendencia en auge. Aunque es legítima la “congelación social” (no por razones médicas) de gametos, se debaten aspectos éticos y sociales. Las técnicas de reproducción asistida (TRA) y la criopreservación, combinadas con la matriz sustituta, se acercan a cierta ectogénesis. Los aspectos psicológicos y morales que surgen antes, durante y después de este proceso implican al psicólogo clínico quien debe estar informado sobre lo que las criotécnicas pueden y podrán hacer. Comentamos las responsabilidades hacia el niño-por-nacer, tanto el no nacido como el aún no concebido. Estos desarrollos rápidos en la reproducción humana hacen aparecer indicaciones médicas, sociales y legales de una separación formalizada entre la procreación y la actividad sexual, diferenciación que irá especificando las responsabilidades en la primera mientras respete la elección personal en la segunda. Son de interés social las implicaciones psicológicas de la reproducción aplazada.
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