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The ?Repugnance? Lens of Gonzales v. Carhart and Other Theories of Reproductive Rights: Evaluating Advanced Reproductive Technologies

By Alliance Alert

Reproductive decisionmaking has always raised ethical and legal issues. With scientific advances, reproductive decisions are even more complex and the legal and moral issues even more complicated. Some advanced technologies, such as in vitro fertilization (?IVF?) assist procreation. Other technologies, such as amniocentesis and chorionic villus sampling (?CVS?), help future parents gather information about the fetus to make decisions about whether to continue a pregnancy. A technique called preimplantation genetic diagnosis (?PIGD?) involves genetic testing of embryos created through IVF, which allows people to get information about the embryo to decide whether or not to implant it. Finally, gene transfer, a technology of the future, may allow us to make reproductive decisions of an altogether different nature?decisions about whether to alter the fetus or embryo genetically, either to eliminate disease or to ?enhance? certain traits.

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on January 19, 2009 (boomark / email).