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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. | ||
* 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. | * 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. | ||
#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> | * Igrot Moshe EH 1:71 writes that it is permitted to do IUI or IVF for a couple that can’t have children naturally. It isn’t considered bitul zera levatala since there is a purpose in emitting zera (similar to Maharsham). However, Rav Moshe writes that they should have zera come out into a condom or into a cup during tashmish.</ref> the child is considered their child,<ref>Igrot Moshe EH 1:10 rules like the Bet Shmuel.</ref> 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. | |||
Igrot Moshe EH 1:71 writes that they should not do sperm donation from a Jew because of the issue that since the father is unknown it could lead to siblings marrying one another.</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> | # 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> | ||
#A sperm donation from another man into a married woman does not make the woman forbidden to her husband, the child is not a mamzer, and if it is a girl can even marry a kohen.<ref>If there was IUI of sperm from someone other than her husband, Igrot Moshe EH 1:10 wrote that the child is not a mamzer because there was no cohabitation that was forbidden. Also, the child if it is a girl could even marry a kohen if the sperm is from a non-Jew since there was no prohibited cohabitation. Also, the Rif holds that even a child of a non-Jewish father and Jewish mother can marry a kohen. Even though we don’t usually follow the Rif here we could because of the first reason.</ref> | |||
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