Artificial Parentage: Screening Parents for Assisted Reproductive Technologies
20 Pages Posted: 22 Feb 2014 Last revised: 24 Aug 2014
Date Written: 2010
Abstract
This Article is a response to empirical research that tracked the candidate “screening” processes at assisted reproductive technology (ART) clinics (i.e. when clinics take into consideration factors other than medical success or financial ability in deciding which patients to accept). This Article clarifies what legal rights and duties candidates and clinics have during the ART screening process and analyzes whether clinics should ethically be permitted to define their own screening procedures beyond legal obligations. This Article concludes that the legal, ethical, and medical standard of ART care should at least include mandated reporting of screening techniques to promote patient and doctor discretion, and tort law protection and regulatory mandates as a cap of uniform protection.
Keywords: assisted reproductive technology, patient screening, IVF, Nadya Suleman, Michael Kamrava
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