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Regulating reproductive genetics: A review of American bioethics commissions and comparison to the British Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority
(Genetics and Public Policy Center, 2005-08-25)Many people are now advocating expanded government regulation of research and clinical use of reproductive technologies. Although many of these technologies have been in use or anticipated for more than twenty-five years, ... -
Regulatory approaches to reproductive testing
(Genetics and Public Policy Center, 2004-09-23)This report analyses the ethical and legal aspects of reproductive genetic testing in 11 countries (Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, India, Israel, Japan, The Netherlands, Switzerland and the UK). The legal ... -
Reproduction, genetics and the law
(Genetics and Public Policy Center, 2005-06)Both reproductive medicine and genetics are seeing rapid, and in some instances, revolutionary medical and scientific advances. Courts have been called upon to resolve a variety of novel disputes arising from these areas, ... -
Reproductive Genetic Testing: Issues and Options for Policymakers
(Genetics and Public Policy Center, 2005)Reproductive genetic testing offers prospective parents information about their risk of having a child with a genetic disease or characteristic. This information can be used to help prospective parents make reproductive ... -
Reproductive Genetic Testing: What America Thinks
(Genetics and Public Policy Center, 2004)Advances in reproductive genetic technologies offer prospective parents an increasing array of options to help them have healthy babies, but these same advances also can raise troubling questions about the extent to which ... -
Reproductive genetics: Conceiving new wrongs?
(Genetics and Public Policy Center, 2005)Genetic testing ought to make it easier for couples to make informed reproductive choices. But when mistakes occur, or communication falters, lawsuits soon follow. -
Statement of Kathy Hudson, Ph.D Re: New Research on Derivation of Embryonic Stem Cells
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Values in Conflict: Public Attitudes on Embryonic Stem Cell Research
(Genetics and Public Policy Center, 2005-10)Stem cells are unique among human cells in that they possess the uncanny ability to develop into virtually any other cell of the body, offering a hypothetical tool kit for repairing diseased hearts, mending broken spinal ...