ABSTRACT

In this short text I want to focus on the moral question: what shall we do with the so-called 1 idiopathic infertility or the unexplained infertility? Shall we treat unexplained infertility with reproductive technology, especially when this kind of infertility is interpreted as a physiological protective reaction caused by stress, as a wise reaction of the body? More generally put: how should the teleology of the body be dealt with ethically? And the so-called unexplained infertility raises the question whether active intervention is useful if this kind of infertility is not interpreted as a disease.