ABSTRACT
Assisted reproduction techniques are legitimised in the collective imagination, as well as legalised in the field of public policy in many geographies. However, some bio-technological advances, such as egg and sperm donation and surrogate pregnancies, are still controversial. Gamete donation enables an individual or a couple who cannot conceive from their own eggs or sperm to become pregnant when receiving the gamete of another person, therefore resigning their own genetic transmission. It is indisputable that women can make decisions about their bodies and desires, about their reproductive rights, from contraceptive care to the termination of a pregnancy, and especially about maternity. The consultation associated with infertility and its medical treatment, particularly the donation of gametes, poses an imperative to think of new tools in clinical practice, not departing from the psychoanalytic postulates, but putting them to work from a different perspective, by means of perhaps flexible or less rigid frameworks.
