Infertility [electronic resource] : Medical and Social Choices.
This report illustrates a range of options for Congressional action in nine principal areas of public policy related to infertility: (1) collecting data on reproductive health; (2) preventing infertility; (3) information to inform and protect consumers; (4) providing access to infertility services;...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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1988.
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| Summary: | This report illustrates a range of options for Congressional action in nine principal areas of public policy related to infertility: (1) collecting data on reproductive health; (2) preventing infertility; (3) information to inform and protect consumers; (4) providing access to infertility services; (5) reproductive health of veterans; (6) transfer of human eggs, sperm, and embryos; (7) recordkeeping; (8) surrogate motherhood; and (9) reproductive research. After introductory chapters on infertility and the demography of infertility, full chapters are devoted to factors contributing to infertility, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, services and costs. Quality assurance for research and clinical care is discussed. Reproductive health of veterans is discussed, including factors specific to veterans, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Agent Orange, and radiation. Ethical considerations relevant to infertility are reviewed, including the right to reproduce, the moral status of the embryo, and research initiatives. Constitutional considerations are described, focusing on freedom to procreate and restrictions on this freedom. The report concludes with discussions of the legal considerations of artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization, embryo transfer, gamete intrafallopian transfer, and surrogate motherhood. Among the 10 appendices are a glossary of terms, and discussions of religious perspectives, fetal research laws possibly affecting in vitro fertilization, and feminist views on reproductive technologies. (ABL) |
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| Item Description: | ERIC Document Number: ED301805. Availability: Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402 (Stock No. 052-003-01091-7, $16.00). |
| Physical Description: | 412 p. |