'God helps those who help themselves'… religion and Assisted Reproductive Technology usage amongst urban Ghanaians.

ABSTRACT: Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) is increasingly becoming a viable option for infertile couples in Ghana. There exists significant literature that explores the gender, legal, religious and socio-cultural implications of ART usage. In this paper, we expand the discourse on the nexus between religion and ART usage by looking at how the former is used as a frame of reference in the decision-making process, as well as how it is employed to explain treatment successes and failures. Irrespective of religious orientation, there was a general acceptance of ART by participants in the study-with exceptions only when it came to some aspects of the procedure. Even here, participants' desperate desire to have children, tended to engender some accommodation of procedures they were uncomfortable wi

SUBMITTER: Hiadzi RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8659311 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature