The New Reproductive Possibilities: Seeking a Moral Basis for Concerted Action in a Pluralistic Society
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 April 2021
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As the media have recently reminded all Americans, biomedical capabilities that are being developed in this country and around the world present us with unfamiliar possibilities in human reproduction, from which flow unprecedented ethical, social and legal issues.
The transfer of a human embryo from one woman to another is one such possibility, though far from the only one. The time has come for a public examination of the full range of developments in reproduction from artificial insemination through in vitro fertilization to the freezing and banking of sperm, eggs, and embryos.
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- © 1984 American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics
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This article is an edited version of testimony given by Professor Capron at hearings on human embyo transfer before the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversigbt of the Committee on Science and Technology of the United States House of Representatives, on August 8, 1984.
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