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There are several ethical issues associated with infertility and its treatment.
* High-cost treatments are out of financial reach for some couples.
* Debate over whether health insurance companies should be forced to cover infertility treatment.
* The legal status of embryos fertilized in vitro and not transferred in vivo.
* Anti-abortion opposition to the destruction of embryos not transferred in vivo.
* IVF and other fertility treatments have resulted in an increase in multiple births, provoking ethical analysis because of the link between multiple pregnancies, premature birth, and a host of health problems.
* Religious leaders' opinions on fertility treatments.
* Infertility caused by DNA defects on the Y chromosome is passed on from father to son. If natural selection is the primary error correction mechanism that prevents random mutations on the Y chromosome, then fertility treatments for men with abnormal sperm (in particular ICSI) only defer the underlying problem to the next male generation.
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