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The perils of surrogate motherhood. (Bioethics).
FEW THINGS are more heartbreaking than infertility--a condition that afflicts about 15 per cent of couples in most Western nations. I say this from first-hand experience as a person adopted as an infant by an infertile couple who grieved over their inability to have their own children. Whether through male or female infertility or difficulties with pregnancy, couples unable to have children are entitled to compassion and comfort.
In those instances where there is potential for fertilisation and conception to occur, a variety of technologies are available to overcome infertility. Artificial Insemination (A1), in which sperm is placed in the vagina through ...
- Surrogate motherhood and public policy. (Bioethics).
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Blackford, Russell March 1, 2003 700+ words
...formulating coherent public policy on bioethical issues...at stake, the public policy challenge is to...of the issue of surrogate motherhood shows how these...THE EXPRESSION "surrogate motherhood" (or "surrogacy...
- FILING DEADLINE THURSDAY MORE THAN 300 BILLS CROWD AGENDA FOR 1988 N.H....
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Laura A. Kiernan, Globe Staff September 27, 1987 700+ words
CONCORD - Major public policy questions, including AIDS testing and education, surrogate motherhood, unpaid leave-time for new parents and affordable housing are among the issues on the agenda for the 1988 session of the New...
- Baby M Fight Goads Legislatures; Surrogate Motherhood a Politically Risky Issue...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Ruth Marcus March 31, 1987 700+ words
...legal territory of surrogate motherhood. In the last decade...politicians on surrogate motherhood. And as the first...it's against public policy." No state has...would discourage surrogate motherhood by prohibiting...
- SURROGATE MOTHERHOOD RAISES TROUBLING ISSUES
- Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN) February 14, 1987 700+ words
...Jersey say regularizing the process would be contrary to public policy because it involves "the sale of a child" through "the...Church in America, ethicist Janet Dickey McDowell says surrogate motherhood involves a basically unacceptable premise, namely...
- Commercial surrogate motherhood.
- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review McLachlan, Hugh V. Swales, J.K. March 1, 1998 700+ words
Surrogate motherhood and, in particular, commercial surrogate motherhood (C.S.M.) has received much criticism...to us to be unfortunate. The case against surrogate motherhood, including commercial surrogate motherhood...
- American adults not ready to embrace surrogate motherhood, according to Parents...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire September 14, 1987 700+ words
...AMERICAN ADULTS NOT READY TO EMBRACE SURROGATE MOTHERHOOD, ACCORDING TO PARENTS MAGAZINE...ready to embrace the practice of surrogate motherhood unconditionally, reveals a national...clear-cut consensus for or against surrogate motherhood, although a plurality takes the...
- Court allows surrogate motherhood
- Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post News agencies July 18, 1995 700+ words
...agencies Jerusalem Post 07-18-1995 SURROGATE motherhood moved closer to legalization here...of a law setting guidelines for surrogate motherhood. At a High Court hearing two weeks...hope for having children is via surrogate motherhood, had asked the High Court to cancel...
- In defense of surrogate motherhood: a right of free choice
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Donald H. J. Hermann March 11, 1987 700+ words
...adoption. Many couples have turned to surrogate motherhood because it offers them a unique...develop with an adopted child. Surrogate motherhood is a contractual arrangement whereby...the child to the couple. While surrogate motherhood serves the needs of some couples...
Source: HighBeam Research, The perils of surrogate motherhood. (Bioethics).