TY - JOUR T1 - IVF, same-sex couples and the value of biological ties JF - Journal of Medical Ethics JO - J Med Ethics SP - 784 LP - 787 DO - 10.1136/medethics-2015-103257 VL - 42 IS - 12 AU - Ezio Di Nucci Y1 - 2016/12/01 UR - http://jme.bmj.com/content/42/12/784.abstract N2 - Ought parents, in general, to value being biologically tied to their children? Is it important, in particular, that both parents be biologically tied to their children? I will address these fundamental questions by looking at a fairly new practice within IVF treatments, so-called IVF-with-ROPA (Reception of Oocytes from Partner), which allows lesbian couples to ‘share motherhood’, with one partner providing the eggs while the other becomes pregnant. I believe that IVF-with-ROPA is, just like other IVF treatments, morally permissible, but here I argue that the increased biological ties which IVF-with-ROPA allows for do not have any particular value beside the satisfaction of a legitimate wish, because there is no intrinsic value in a biological tie between parents and children; further, I argue that equality within parental projects cannot be achieved by redistributing biological ties. ER -