title: Gynaecology and ethics.
abstract: The link between gynaecology and ethics, one time neglected, turns out to be inevitable. The gynaecologist's work has to be oriented to the highest value on the earth, i.e., to the human person, considered in both its developmental and social dimensions. The task of a doctor (physician) is to further the health of the human person, and the specific task of the gynaecologist and obstetrician is to help professionally in the transmission of human life. To fulfill this task, they have to know the correct answer to the question when human life begins, the answer given by embryology and medical thermodynamics. The human embryo has to be considered and treated as a human person. This includes the exclusion of such acts as direct or indirect abortion, experimental use of embryos, and all kinds of genetic manipulation. The right ways of human fertilization are a consequence of the dignity of the child and of the married couple, as well as of their right to love and to be loved. It excludes the insemination, the homogeneous and heterogeneous fertilization in vitro, and the surrogate motherhood. The gynaecologists, obstetricians and midwives have to refuse to perform the nocive or immoral interventions. They should be ready to do their best in helping people in the right transmission of human life.
authors.forename: W B
authors.initials: WB
authors.lastname: Skrzydlewski
mesh_terms: D033421:Beginning of Human Life; D032981:Dehumanization; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005260:Female; D006176:Gynecology; D006801:Humans; D019369:Life; D028723:Personhood; D012098:Reproduction; D038522:Twinning, Monozygotic