How Safe Is Safe Enough?: Obligations to the Children of Reproductive Technology
This book offers a comprehensive roadmap for determining when and how to regulate risky reproductive technologies on behalf of future children. First, it provides three benchmarks for determining whether a reproductive practice is harmful to the children it produces. This framework synthesizes and extends past efforts to make sense of our intuitive, but paradoxical, belief that reproductive choices can be both life-giving and harmful. Next, it recommends a process for reconciling the interests of future children with the reproductive liberty of prospective parents. The author rejects a blanket preference for either parental autonomy or child welfare and proposes instead a case-by-case inquiry that takes into account the nature and magnitude of the proposed restrictions on procreative liberty, the risk of harm to future children, and the context in which the issue arises. Finally, he applies this framework to four past and future medical treatments with above average risk, including cloning and genetic engineering. Drawing lessons from these case studies, Peters criticizes the current lack of regulatory oversight and recommends both more extensive pre-market testing and closer post-market monitoring of new reproductive technologies. His moderate, pragmatic approach will be widely appreciated.
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How Safe Is Safe Enough?: Obligations to the Children of Reproductive Technology
This book offers a comprehensive roadmap for determining when and how to regulate risky reproductive technologies on behalf of future children. First, it provides three benchmarks for determining whether a reproductive practice is harmful to the children it produces. This framework synthesizes and extends past efforts to make sense of our intuitive, but paradoxical, belief that reproductive choices can be both life-giving and harmful. Next, it recommends a process for reconciling the interests of future children with the reproductive liberty of prospective parents. The author rejects a blanket preference for either parental autonomy or child welfare and proposes instead a case-by-case inquiry that takes into account the nature and magnitude of the proposed restrictions on procreative liberty, the risk of harm to future children, and the context in which the issue arises. Finally, he applies this framework to four past and future medical treatments with above average risk, including cloning and genetic engineering. Drawing lessons from these case studies, Peters criticizes the current lack of regulatory oversight and recommends both more extensive pre-market testing and closer post-market monitoring of new reproductive technologies. His moderate, pragmatic approach will be widely appreciated.
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How Safe Is Safe Enough?: Obligations to the Children of Reproductive Technology

How Safe Is Safe Enough?: Obligations to the Children of Reproductive Technology

by Philip G. Peters
How Safe Is Safe Enough?: Obligations to the Children of Reproductive Technology

How Safe Is Safe Enough?: Obligations to the Children of Reproductive Technology

by Philip G. Peters

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This book offers a comprehensive roadmap for determining when and how to regulate risky reproductive technologies on behalf of future children. First, it provides three benchmarks for determining whether a reproductive practice is harmful to the children it produces. This framework synthesizes and extends past efforts to make sense of our intuitive, but paradoxical, belief that reproductive choices can be both life-giving and harmful. Next, it recommends a process for reconciling the interests of future children with the reproductive liberty of prospective parents. The author rejects a blanket preference for either parental autonomy or child welfare and proposes instead a case-by-case inquiry that takes into account the nature and magnitude of the proposed restrictions on procreative liberty, the risk of harm to future children, and the context in which the issue arises. Finally, he applies this framework to four past and future medical treatments with above average risk, including cloning and genetic engineering. Drawing lessons from these case studies, Peters criticizes the current lack of regulatory oversight and recommends both more extensive pre-market testing and closer post-market monitoring of new reproductive technologies. His moderate, pragmatic approach will be widely appreciated.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780195157079
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 03/18/2004
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 9.40(w) x 6.20(h) x 1.10(d)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to the Debate Over Risky TechnologiesPart I: THE INTERESTS OF FUTURE CHILDREN2. Future People Matter3. Three Ways in Which Reproductive Conduct Can Cause Harm4. The Duty to Use the Safest Procreative Method Available5. Treatments Too Dangerous to Use Even as a Last Resort6. Treatments That Endanger Embryos7. SynthesisPART II: RECONCILING CONFLICTING INTERESTS8. Constructing a Regulatory Framework that Respects Parental Liberty9. An Introduction to Constitutional Limits on the Regulation of Reproduction10. Substantive Due Process Doctrine11. A Critique of the "Deeply Rooted" Test12. The Constitutional Stature of Reproductive Technologies13. The State's Interest in Protecting Future ChildrenPART III: APPLYING THE FRAMEWORK14. Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI)15. Multiple Pregnancy16. Cloning17. Germ-line Genetic Engineering18. Conclusion
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