In relation to artificial insemination, the beloved Guardian in a letter written on his behalf to an individual believer states: "...there is no objection to having a baby by means of artificial insemination as long as your husband is the father of it." While artificial insemination is a very different process from in vitro fertilization, the principle enunciated by the Guardian is the same, namely, that to be acceptable to Bahá’ís the egg cell of the wife should be fertilized by the sperm of the husband in the procedure.
- The Universal House of Justice (From a letter dated 25 October 1984, written on behalf of the Universal House of Justice to a National Spiritual Assembly; included in a memorandum from the Research Department of the Universal House of Justice, dated 19 May 2003)
