Author Posts Archive: Jessica Arons
Questions about whether to regulate fertility treatments differ in distinct ways from debates over the regulation of abortion care.
The new regulation disrupts the careful balance established by medical codes of conduct and standards of care, placing the health, well-being, and dignity of patients at risk.
A proposed HHS rule would alter the meaning of the word “abortion.” If implemented, our best tools for preventing the need for abortion would suddenly be redefined
as abortion.
It is estimated that approximately half a million frozen embryos are currently being stored by fertility clinics in the United States. Patients who have not used all the embryos they have created have several options from which to choose in deciding what to do with the embryos. An excerpt from the new report, Future Choices: Assisted Reproductive Technologies and the Law, from the Center for American Progress.
How a little-known law in Louisiana that regulates the use of frozen embryos created by assisted reproduction challenges common sense and the Constitution.