Thanks to dynamic technological and scientific progress, artificial insemination has
been available and in use in Hungary since the 1990s. However, these human reproductive
procedures still raise several ethical and legal questions. Infertility as a public
health problem is on the rise worldwide, the number of people affected by the delay
in childbearing is increasing, and the mindset of modern man, and thus especially
that of the younger generation, does not necessarily reflect a positive trend. In
our comprehensive research, we have previously explored the salient ethical and legal
dilemmas related to human reproductive procedures, and then made it our objective
to approach the issue of human reproductive procedures through a deeper exploration
of the experience, aided by a questionnaire survey, providing fresh insights into
the attitudes towards childbearing and the respondents’ thinking and experience of
artificial insemination. One of the most controversial issues regarding human reproductive
procedures is what happens to frozen embryos left over from the procedures; the possibility
of donating embryos may arise, which could also be the source of heated debate. In
this phase of the research, a questionnaire survey was again carried out, and the
target group was full-time law students aged 18-25 at the Deák Ferenc Faculty of Law
and Political Sciences of Széchenyi István University.
