title: Artificial reproductive technologies in Australia--legislation for the new millennium?
abstract: In Australia there have been 26,818 live births after IVF and other assisted conception treatments up to 1997. The 3,164 births resulting from assisted conception in 1996 accounted for 1.2% of all Australian births in that year. In 1997 the number of births had increased by 9.3% to 3,458. Medical and scientific advances in the area of artificial reproductive technology have resulted in a complexity of moral, medical and legal issues with respect to the infertile couple or person. The following paper attempts to highlight some of these issues, from a social, legal and technological perspective, and then consider the approach taken by governments and regulatory bodies.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy and Histology, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Terry
authors.forename: C D
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Shorey
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D001723:Birth Rate; D019976:Cloning, Organism / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D003219:Confidentiality / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D010067:Ownership / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D010344:Patient Advocacy / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D012099:Reproductive Techniques / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000639:trends; D012106:Research / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D013533:Gestational Carriers / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence