Part 4. Last but not Least: Zygote, Blastocyst, Embryo, Fetus, Newborn -- David DeGrazia. Part 1. Society -- Procreative Responsibility in View of What Parents Owe Their Children / Amy Cabrera Rasmussen -- Access to Reproductive Rights: Global Challenges / Sheelagh McGuinness and Heather Widdows -- Constructing the Abortion Argument / Rosamond Rhodes -- Victims of Trafficking, Reproductive Rights, and Asylum / Diana Tietjens Meyers -- The Commodification of Women's Reproductive Tissue and Services / Donna Dickenson -- Twenty-First-Century Eugenics / Christopher Gyngell and Michael J. Selgelid -- Procreative Rights in a Postcoital World / Kimberly M. Mutcherson -- Reproduction as a Civil Right / Anita Silvers and Leslie Francis -- Part 2. Providers -- Conscientious Objection in Reproductive Health / Armand H. Matheny Antommaria -- The Role of Providers in Assisted Reproduction: Potential Conflicts, Professional Conscience and Personal Choice / Judith Daar -- Ethical Issues in Newborn Screening / Jeffrey R. Botkin -- Part 3. Parents -- How We Acquire Parental Rights / Norvin Richards -- Mothers and Others: Relational Autonomy in Parenting / Sara Goering -- Procreators' Duties: Sexual Asymmetries / Don Hubin -- Reproductive Control for Men: For Men? / Margaret P. Battin -- Societal Disregard for the Needs of the Infertile / David Orentlicher -- Is Surrogacy Ethically Problematic? / Leslie Francis -- Parents with Disabilities / Adam Cureton -- Late-in-life Motherhood: Ethico-Legal Perspectives on the Postponement of Childbearing and Access to Artificial Reproductive Technologies / Imogen Goold -- Justice, Procreation, and the Costs of Having and Raising Disabled Children / David Wasserman -- Ethical Issues in the Evolving Realm of Egg Donation / Lorna A Marshall -- Sperm and Egg Donor Anonymity: Legal and Ethical Issues / I. Glenn Cohen -- Who Am I When I'm Pregnant? / Hilde Lindemann -- Part 4. Last but not Least: Zygote, Blastocyst, Embryo, Fetus, Newborn -- Contemplating the Start of Someone / Adam Kadlac -- The Possibility of Being Harmed by One's Own Conception / Janet Malek -- Understanding Procreative Beneficence / Julian Savulescu and Guy Kahane -- Opting for Twins in In Vitro Fertilization: What Does Procreative Responsibility Require? / Bonnie Steinbock -- Procreative Responsibility in View of What Parents Owe Their Children / David DeGrazia.
Summary:
Intimate and medicalized, natural and technological, reproduction poses some of the most challenging ethical dilemmas of our time. Reproduction presses the boundaries of humanity and ethical respect, the permissible limits of technology, conscientious objection by health care professionals, and social justice. This volume brings together scholars from multiple perspectives to address both traditional and novel questions about the rights and responsibilities of human reproducers, their caregivers, and the societies in which they live. Among issues treated in the volume are what it is to be a parent, the responsibilities of parents, and the role of society in facilitating or discouraging parenting. May gamete donors be anonymous? Is surrogacy in which a woman gestates a child for others ethically permissible when efforts are made to prevent coercion or exploitation? Should it be mandatory to screen newborns for potentially serious conditions, or permissible to sequence their genomes? Are both parties to a reproductive act equally responsible to support the child, even if one deceived the other? Are there ethical asymmetries between male and female parents, and is the lack of available contraceptives for men unjust? Should the costs of infertility treatment be socially shared, as they are for other forms of health care? Do parents have a duty to try to conceive children under the best circumstances they can-or to avoid conception if the child will suffer? What is the status of the fetus and what ethical limits constrain the use of fetal tissue? Reproduction is a rapidly changing medical field, with novel developments such as mitochondrial transfer or uterine transplantation occurring regularly. And there are emerging natural challenges, too, with Zika virus just the latest. The volume gives readers tools not only to address the problems we now know, but ones that may emerge in the future as well. -- Provided by publisher.
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