title: Test-tube babies: ethical considerations.
abstract: This essay reviews 15 statements on the ethics of in vitro fertilization (IVF) and embryo transfer that were produced between 1979 and 1985. The statements represent the deliberations and conclusions of committees from Australia, Western Europe (including the United Kingdom), Canada, and the United States. From 1979 through the early 1980s, 18 first-generation issues predominated in the ethical discussion. In the mid-1980s eight second-generation issues involving clinical IVF have emerged.
mesh_terms: D026683:Advisory Committees; D004624:Embryo Transfer; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005307:Fertilization in Vitro; D006801:Humans; D038622:Internationality; D018587:Oocyte Donation; D018579:Patient Selection; D012926:Social Control, Formal