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#Most poskim hold that it is permitted for a couple to do IUI or IVF,<ref> | #Most poskim hold that it is permitted for a couple to do IUI or IVF,<ref> | ||
* Is it permitted? Bitul Zera: [https://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=963&st=&pgnum=150 Yaskil Avdi EH 5:10:1:4] writes that it is forbidden to do IUI or IVF because of bitul zera. Even if the child is considered their child and fulfills pru urevu, it is still forbidden. He thinks that bitul zera is not related to her becoming pregnant. It is only permitted to emit zera in the act of tashmish with his wife in the place where Hashem allowed it. | * Is it permitted? Bitul Zera: [https://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=963&st=&pgnum=150 Yaskil Avdi EH 5:10:1:4] writes that it is forbidden to do IUI or IVF because of bitul zera. Even if the child is considered their child and fulfills pru urevu, it is still forbidden. He thinks that bitul zera is not related to her becoming pregnant. It is only permitted to emit zera in the act of tashmish with his wife in the place where Hashem allowed it. | ||
</ref> the child is considered their child, and the father fulfills Pru Urevu. | * Minchat Yitzchak 1:50 is willing to rely on Maharsham who held that it isn't bitul zera if through the process they can have a child and fulfill pru urevu. A proof for this is Tosfot Sanhedrin who compares the halachic parameters of pru urevu and hashchatat zera.</ref> the child is considered their child, and the father fulfills Pru Urevu. | ||
#Whether it is permitted to do sperm donation from Jewish sperm is a major dispute.<ref>[https://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=963&st=&pgnum=151 Yaskil Avdi 5:10:1:6] writes that it is terrible to allow any IVF because they might come to allow a sperm donation from someone other than her husband.</ref> | #Whether it is permitted to do sperm donation from Jewish sperm is a major dispute.<ref>[https://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=963&st=&pgnum=151 Yaskil Avdi 5:10:1:6] writes that it is terrible to allow any IVF because they might come to allow a sperm donation from someone other than her husband.</ref> | ||
# There is a major question if doing IUI or IVF is permitted when a woman is still a niddah.<ref>Minchat Yitzchak 1:50 suggests that she go to mivkeh before the procedure even if it is only 7 days after she became a niddah and is not permitted to her husband until after she goes to mikveh after shiva nekiyim.</ref> | |||
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