Nurses are the largest health workforce in the healthcare delivery system. They use a human rights-based approach in delivering care. Women’s right to health includes their sexual and reproductive health. Global decline in fertility is a social concern. Assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) provide a range of solutions for couples, but they also raise critical ethical and legal challenges, particularly concerning the rights of women undergoing infertility treatment. This paper explores the legal and ethical aspects of infertility care, and highlights the nurses’ role in upholding women's rights within. After literature search of online databases such as PubMed and Google Scholar, newspapers, policy documents and ethical published guidelines, Mendeley Reference Manager version, this paper identified the human rights violations in relation to reproductive health of women, like problems in affordability, accessibility, stigmatisation, and commercialisation of ART services. It also addressed the balance between reproductive autonomy vs welfare of the child; right of the child to know its origin; challenges in the upbringing of the child born out of ART; role of surrogacy and ART Act in overcoming these challenges. Nurses should be empowered and educated, and be made aware of relevant legal provisions. Nurses must be made strong enough to voice out and contribute to broader reproductive justice.
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