Ruling on freezing gamete in Imami jurisprudence

Delayed childbearing at the right age of fertility disrupts the population growth process and in some cases deprives families of enough children. One solution for this challenge is to use freezing gamete technology at a young age and health. For this purpose they freeze the couple's sperm and egg in the laboratory and store them in special conditions so that they can use it in certain time. But what is the ruling on this new achievement of medical science in freezing gamete is a question that the present study seeks to answer it.

The present study which is organized by descriptive and analytical methods and the method of collecting information is based on the library method by reading books, articles, scientific texts and searching the resources available on the Internet seeks to answer the question that what is the religious ruling on freezing gamete from the point of view of jurists and what are practical and rational benefits in the reproductive process?

The results show that the ruling on freezing gametes is disputed by contemporary jurists. Some believe in any method of childbearing by unnatural means is illegal and is a change in divine creation. But others consider it justifiable by using the principle of immorality and correctness, the principle of the necessity of treatment and also the secondary titles such as necessity and negation of hardship, provided that during the process of obtaining and inoculating the applicants' gametes with each other, forbidden preconditions are avoided and marital interest is provided.