Post-mortem human reproduction: legal and other regulatory issues.
Increasingly women are seeking to establish pregnancies using sperm retrieved from their dead or dying partners. This raises a number of issues of a broad nature, but is also of significance in terms of the relationship between regulatory mechanisms and private choices. This article reviews this relationship with specific reference to the United Kingdom position, but also taking account of case law and regulation in Australia, particularly in the State of Victoria.
Glasgow University.
Sheila A M
SA
McLean
D001293:Attitude to Death; D001294:Attitude to Health; D001315:Australia; D002102:Cadaver; D015925:Cryopreservation; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005260:Female; D006076:Government; D006806:Human Rights; D006801:Humans; D007883:Legislation, Medical / Q000592:standards; D008297:Male; D012099:Reproductive Techniques / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D013094:Spermatozoa; D006113:United Kingdom
Genetics and Reproduction; Legal Approach