The National Advisory Board on Ethics in Reproduction (NABER) was an independent, private, not-for-profit board created in 1991 by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and the American Fertility Society (AFS) to review and comment on ethical issues related to the use of new reproductive technologies. This paper ...

The project of developing an anticipatory anthropology of the future reveals unique ethical opportunities. For example, the increased importance of performance means there is a substantial potential for a substantive "resocialing" of work in organizations, just as the decline of Modernism opens space for collective, situated ethics as opposed to ...

In recent years there has been considerable debate over the legal and ethical issues associated with posthumous reproduction. This article analyses recent cases and legal regulation of reproductive technologies in Australia. The issues associated with posthumous reproduction are explored through a consideration of the nature of an individual's interest in ...

The interests of gamete donors have only recently been recognized in assisted reproduction; traditionally, the interests of the patients (typically a couple) and the prospective child are paramount. However, assisted reproduction would not be possible without donors, and the simple utilitarian view would be to place their interests first to ...

This document is the first recommendation on the presentation of properties in reproduction and fertility and their values in clinical laboratory sciences from The International Society of Andrology, IFCC and IUPAC. It forms part of the ongoing effort to standardise requests and reporting of laboratory data for transmission across cultural ...

The American Society of Reproductive Medicine meeting (formerly the American Fertility Society) was held in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, on November 2-6, 1996. Numerous abstracts concerning original research in reproductive immunology were presented at the meeting. In addition, seminars and round table discussions were held on the topics of hormonal immunocontraception, ...

The last quarter of the twentieth century has given rise to reproductive technologies and arrangements that in the earlier part of the century could only be dreamed of by the authors of science fiction. We stand in the middle of this reproductive revolution, trying to cope with the developments that ...

/ Conservation of living resources is no longer parochial in scope; it is a global challenge. Ecological, social, political, and business interests operate in a network that reaches across seas, continents, and nations. Industries, including the electric utility industry, are diversifying in products and expanding into international markets. They soon ...

There's something seductive about technology. It's exciting, bold, fresh and constantly reinventing itself. This allure is hard to resist, as last year's Windows '95 hype can well attest. In a time-starved society in which automobile drivers become impatient sitting at red lights, it's noteworthy that many spent one night last ...

Although President Clinton's proposals were defeated in 1994, healthcare reform is an issue that will not go away. But it is an especially complex issue because it is moral and spiritual as well as political. Catholic social teaching could help free us Americans from our confusion on the topic. For ...

The British Society for Immunology Spring Meeting, held at the University of Bristol on April 17-19th, 1996, to mark the bicentenary of Edward Jenner's vaccination against smallpox, provided the setting for the recent meeting of the UK Materno-Fetal Immunobiology Group (MFIG). The them for the MFIG workshop was 'Cytokines in ...

How reproductive technologies are used has consequences not just for immediate users but for others as well. This article discusses issues that should be taken into consideration in coming to decisions about whether or not it is appropriate to use a particular reproductive technology, or whether to use a technology ...

The distinctiveness of Bioethics in New Zealand stems in part from a renewal of emphasis on Maori rights, based on the Treaty of Waitangi, the foundation document of the New Zealand state. Increasingly, committees dealing with health research ethics and with the ethics of assisted reproductive technology have to incorporate ...

This article recapitulates and extends a discussion of the position of halakhic Judaism (traditional Jewish law and ethics) on various issues that relate to assisted reproduction, including genetic and legal relationships, disposal of untransplanted embryos, embryo tissue research, multifetal pregnancy reduction, preimplantation genetic screening and sex selection and donor gametes.

The public is expecting delivery on the Democratic Party's election promises of healthcare reform. Now, with a Democrat in the White House and a Democratic majority in Congress, the time seems ripe for real reform. But unity continues to elude the party on this hot issue, says former Colorado Governor ...

Catholic natural law has had a long and evolving interest in bioethics. Thomas Aquinas left natural law a legacy of great flexibility in evaluating goods within a whole life. He also bequeathed to the Church the basis for an abolutism on sexual issues. Modern reproductive medicine and a deeper understanding ...

In September 1986, The American Fertility Society issued a report, Ethical Considerations of the New Reproductive Technologies, setting forth the then-held ethical position of the Society on the various new reproductive technologies. In 1987, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued the Instruction on the Respect for Human ...

A symposium honoring the memory of Frank A. Beach (1911-1988) and celebrating his scientific contributions was held on June 12, 1989 during the 21st Conference on Reproductive Behavior (CRB). The papers arising from the symposium are introduced after a very brief history of the CRB and its origins in an ...

The scientific breakthroughs resulting in the delivery of Louise Brown in 1978 have opened the floodgates for an ongoing bioethical discussion about medically assisted reproduction. The majority in our society has accepted in vitro fertilization as an ethically justifiable procedure for infertile couples. The concern persists, however, that new reproductive ...

In September 1986, The American Fertility Society issued a report, Ethical Considerations of the New Reproductive Technologies, setting forth the then-held ethical position of the Society on the various new reproductive technologies. In 1987, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued the Instruction on the Respect for Human ...

Management of freshwater fisheries : proceedings of a symposium organized by the European Inland Fisheries Advisory Commission, Göteborg, Sweden, 31 May - 3 June 1988, ISBN 90-220-1014-7: eds. W. L. T. van Densen, B. Steinmetz, R. H. Huges, 82 - 89

On 1 May 1988, the governing body of the canton of Glarus, Switzerland, voted that homologous artificial insemination would be the only assisted reproduction procedure authorized to be performed in the canton. On 15 March 1989, the Swiss Bundesgericht declared prohibitions on artificial insemination by donor and homologous in vitro ...

The Ethics Committee of the American Fertility Society recently released its report, "Ethical Considerations of the New Reproductive Technologies." The report examines general ethical, legal, and biological aspects of and makes ethical recommendations on procreative technologies, from standard in vitro fertilization, through all its possible variations and accompaniments, including donor ...

Society would be wise to ponder the psychology of the adopted in order to gain some insights into what the psychological makeup of the brave new baby might be. Whatever combinations of reproduction and parenting we make, we should relinquish the secrecy that has been the scourge of the adoption ...

Advances in medicine's ability to assist reproduction in those afflicted with infertility raise numerous ethical questions both for potential recipients of the techniques and for society as a whole. Society must decide what level of resources should be committed to the treatment of infertility in light of the fact that ...

Even leaving aside the question of the impact of reproductive technology on property law, successions, commercial law and the legal qualification to be given to some of the relationships it entails (e.g. 'deposit' of genetic material, 'lease and hire' of wombs, 'gifts' of embryos), there is no doubt that, like ...

Wisdom lies in extraction of good from new and old. Wisdom alone produces a society of wise men unable to leave their caves. Technology alone produces a society ruled by cold, despotic facts. A proper combination of wisdom and technology can produce the good life. That requires recognition of our ...

NECAHR is part of the New Zealand Ministry of Health, it seeks to balance harms and benefits of assisted human reproduction in a way that respects individuals' choices, demonstrates caution in relation to possible harms, and gives due respect to society's evolving norms. The website lists the key ethical principles ...

Patterns of reproductive failure in declining populations of several European and North American raptorial species were duplicated experimentally with captive American sparrow hawks Falco sparvcrius that were given a diet containing two commonly used organochlorine insecticides. Major effects on reproduction were increased egg disappearance, increased egg destruction by parent birds, ...