Originally published by Wadsworth Publishing, Belmont, CA, 1990. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Legal and moral claims about the right to assistance in reproduction -- The constitutional aspects of procreative liberty -- Instruction on respect for humanlife in its origin and ont he dignity of procreation: replies to certain questions of the day -- Ethical consideraitons of new reproductive technologies -- Artificial insemination -- The subversive sperm: a false strain of blood -- There is of course the distinction dictated by nature: law and the problem of paternity -- Fertility drugs, GIFT, and IVF -- The ethics of in vitro fertilization -- Test-tube babies: ethical consideraitons -- Human in vitro fertilization: a conservative view -- A criticism of moral conservatism's view of IVF and ET -- Gestational surrogacy and surrogate motherhood -- Surrogate mothers: not so novel after all -- In the matter of Baby M., a pseudonym for an actual person -- The baby broker boom -- The aftermath of Baby M.: proposed state laws on surrogate motherhood -- Fetal monitoring, sex preselection, non-reproductive uses of fetuses, and forced medical treatment of pregnant women -- Moral obligations to the not-yet-born: the fetus as patient -- Compelled medical treatment of pregnant women: life, liberty, and law in conflict -- Genetic choice -- The ethical options in transplanting fetal tissue -- Social consequences of increasing infertility, state control of gestation, and the possibility of artificial wombs: the future of reprorduction? -- Historical notes on The Handmaid's Tale -- The Central London Hatchery: chapter one of Brave New World -- The artificial womb: an escape from The Dark and Dangerous Place: chapter twelve of The Mother Machine -- Glossary.
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