The Law of Assisted Reproduction

ISBN-13: 9781847666956 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 656 str.

Burns, Seamus

Opis

This work analyses the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 and considers the wide-ranging legal, ethical, medical, moral and social arguments deployed in argument in Parliament in favour of and opposing controversial amendments to the 1990 Act.

Spis treści

Introduction; PART 1 Human Admixed Embryos: New Eden or Manufactured Humanity?: Frankenstein Humanity - Promethean Hubris?; House of Lords Debate; House of Commons Debates; PART 2 Saviour Siblings - Commodifying Life?: Saviour Siblings; Ethical Issues; House of Lords Debates; House of Commons Debates; New Beginnings - New Law?; PART 3 Welfare of the Child versus the Wishes or Whims of the Parents: Welfare of the Child in 2012; The Common Law Response: Case Law on the 'Welfare of the Child' and Suitability of Parents; House of Commons Debates; House of Lords Debates; PART 4 The Case for Abortion Reform: The Abortion Controversy; PART 5 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 - The New Order of Parents: The Birth of the New Parenthood Regime; Naming but not Shaming?; PART 6 The Impact of Human Rights: Human Rights and Reproductive Medicine; ECHR Square Pegs in Common Law Round Holes; PART 7 The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority - Fit for Purpose in 2012?: Warnock: The Ethical Compass; The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 - the Birth of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority; Changes to the HFEA following the 2008 Act; PART 8 The Lottery of Certain Lives: The Lottery of Accessing Assisted Reproduction; PART 9 Randomness Rejected?: Sex Selection under the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008; PART 10 In Search of the Best Ethical Compass: The Role of Parliament: Our Ethical Compass; The View of the House of Lords; The Case for an Alternative Ethical Forum; Stem Cell Research in the United States: the Ethical Civil War Battlelines Redrawn?; European Union and Research on Embryonic Stem Cells - the Door Closes?; Conclusion.