Human Embryo Transfer: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight of the Committee on Science and Technology, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, Second Session, August 8, 9, 1984, Volume 4 |
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adoption alternative reproduction American Fertility Society artificial insemination baby biological birth BUSTER C-FARR child clinical clomiphene clomiphene citrate Code Ann conception concern consent cryopreservation cycle donation egg donor embryo adoption embryo transfer father fertilization and embryo fertilized egg follicle freezing frozen embryos gametes gene genetic germinal material gestational going GORE GOROVITZ GROBSTEIN guidelines Gynecology Health HODGEN human embryos human reproduction husband implantation infertile couples infertility Institutional Review Institutional Review Board involved issues IVF-EP JONES laparoscopy lavage legislation married couple Marrs Medical Center Medicine moral normal Obstetrics offspring oocyte ovum transfer patients person physicians possible potential pregnancy problems procedure procreative Professor prohibit protect public policy question recommendations reproductive technologies ROBERTSON scientific semen sperm donor Stat subcommittee Supp surrogate mother techniques thawing therapy tion treatment uterus Vanderbilt Vanderbilt University vitro fertilization WENTZ woman women
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Page 340 - Industrial application An invention shall be considered as susceptible of industrial application if it can be made or used in any kind of industry, including agriculture.
Page 113 - Georgetown University Law Center 600 New Jersey Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20001...
Page 74 - Every group initiating a program of in vitro fertilization should have all aspects of the program approved by a properly constituted Institutional Review Committee. The Institutional Review Committee or its equivalent should ensure that a record is kept of all attempts made at securing pregnancies by these techniques. The records should include all medical aspects of the treatment cycles and a record of success or failure with respect to oocyte recovery, fertilization, cleavage, conceptus transfer,...
Page 173 - A child conceived through heterologous artificial insemination^ does not have a "natural father," as that term is commonly used. The anonymous donor of the sperm cannot be considered the "natural father," as he is no more responsible for the use made of his sperm than is the donor of blood or a kidney.
Page 191 - ... necessary to understand this keystone of legal reasoning — and to accept it as a fact no matter how silly it may sound — before it is possible to understand the strange processes of The Law. It is necessary to realize that The Law not only stands still but is proud and determined to stand still. If a British barrister of two hundred years ago were suddenly to come alive in an American court-room, he would feel intellectually at home. The clothes would astonish him, the electric lights would...
Page 168 - It shall be unlawful for any person having the care or custody of any child, wilfully to cause or permit the life of such child to be endangered or the health of such child to be injured, or wilfully cause or permit such child to be placed in such a situation that its life or health may be endangered.
Page 44 - Notes should continue to apply to all work in this field. Particular matters that need to be taken into account when ethical aspects are being considered follow. 1 . Every centre or institution offering an IVF and ET program should have all aspects of the program approved by an institutional ethics committee.
Page 368 - To consider recent and potential developments in medicine and science related to human fertilisation and embryology; to consider what policies and safeguards should be applied, including consideration of the social, ethical and legal implications of these developments; and to make recommendations.
Page 369 - when a child is born to a woman following donation of another's egg the woman giving birth should, for all purposes, be regarded in law as the mother of that child
Page 355 - From a moral point of view this is certain: even if a doubt existed concerning whether the fruit of conception is already a human person, it is objectively a grave sin to dare to risk...