Control and compensation: laws governing extracorporeal generative materials.
The Vatican Instruction advocates laws banning in vitro fertilization, gamete donation, embryo donation, and surrogate motherhood. The OTA Report Infertility provides a range of policy choices for handling these reproductive procedures. The choice among these alternative regulations needs to be developed within the framework of the right to privacy of the U.S. Constitution, which provides support for an approach that allows the progenitors to control the uses made of their generative materials and to receive compensation for them, subject to laws which facilitate informed consent and attempt to assure quality.
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American Bar Foundation, Chicago, Illinois 60611.
D002410:Catholicism / Q000523:psychology; D002961:Civil Rights / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005260:Female; D005307:Fertilization in Vitro; D033161:Government Regulation; D018594:Human Body; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D007315:Insemination, Artificial; D008297:Male; D018587:Oocyte Donation; D011247:Pregnancy; D012099:Reproductive Techniques; D013094:Spermatozoa; D013533:Gestational Carriers; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement