Posts tagged with ‘reproductive health’
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.
Researchers at Newcastle University in England report that they have created embryos with the DNA from three people: a sperm donor, an egg donor, and a second female donor whose contribution to the embryo is a packet of genes that lie outside the egg’s nucleus, called mitchochondria. If adopted in the U.S., the procedure could test FDA authority over
in vitro reproductive research.
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.
A new proposal to grant embryos legal rights could disrupt more than just access to abortion: it threatens women’s rights and demonizes medical technology.
Sperm banking is largely unregulated, raising controversial genetic, medical, and ethical questions. Yet the remedies are equally contentious.
Only in rare cases should women freeze their eggs in order to save them for fertilization at a later date, according to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.
