title: Developing ethical public policy on reproduction and prenatal research: whose interests deserve what protection?
abstract: Have physicians and medical researchers begun to play God? Many procedures, including in vitro fertilization, involve treating and transferring embryos: this constitutes experimentation on human beings without the capacity to consent. Will medical ethics meet an increasing societal commitment towards ever greater respect and protection of human life from non-therapeutic experimentation? The medico-ethical aspects of this sensitive and complex issue are examined in detail.
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authors.lastname: Giesen
mesh_terms: D033421:Beginning of Human Life; D033041:Embryo Research; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005060:Europe; D005333:Fetus; D006805:Human Experimentation; D006806:Human Rights / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D038622:Internationality; D019369:Life; D033281:Nontherapeutic Human Experimentation; D011640:Public Policy; D012099:Reproductive Techniques; D014481:United States; D026712:Value of Life