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Renzo Paccini VegaPalabras clave: técnicas de reproducción asistida, fertilización in vitro,bioética, embrión, niño, persona.INFANCY AND REPRODUCTION ASSISTED TECHNICS.A BIOETHICS APPROXIMATIONRevista STUDIUM VERITATIS, Año 11, N. 17, 2013 (pp.193-226)Abstract: The arguments for the ethical admission of Assisted ReproductiveTechnologies (ART) usually emphasize the interests of adults and are manytimes full of feelings of compassion. The present work intends to set up adebate with a new light by presenting an ART bioethical analysis, especiallyon that of vitro fertilization by transfer of embryos, and looking at it fromthe perspective of the interests of children generated by it. First, technicaland scientific aspects are described. These reveal ART as consisting ofnontherapeutic procedures with very poor efficacy and with yet unknownfuture effects, which in turn classify them as «experimental». Afterwards,assuming that the human person is the fundamental reference of ethicalvalue, the values of the child, who is inevitably vulnerable in this procedure,are highlighted, such as his human physical life and dignity, his health,filiation and identity and freedom. It is concluded that ART methods implyintrinsically evil acts.Keywords: assisted reproductive technologies, in vitro fertilization,bioethics, embryo, child, person.— 194 —