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Assisted reproduction relies on the help of other people to conceive a child. It is necessary when:
#a person wants to have a child without someone else also being a parent of that child;
#the people involved in an opposite-sex relationship are infertile or a woman can't carry a baby to term;
#the people involved in a same-sex relationship want to have a child, and they want the child to share the genetic heritage of at least one of them; or,