Reproduction, Technology, and Rights

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Part I

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-3

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   2. Abortion and Fathers’ Rights

      • Steven D. Hales

      Pages 5-26

   3. Maternity, Paternity, and Equality

      • James M. Humber

      Pages 27-41

   4. More on Fathers’ Rights

      • Steven D. Hales

      Pages 43-49

3. Part II

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-53

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   2. Ethical Considerations in the Multiplication of Human Embryos

      • Kathleen Ganss Gibson, Joe B. Massey

      Pages 55-73

   3. In Vitro Fertilization and the just Use of Health Care Resources

      • Leonard J. Weber

      Pages 75-89

   4. The Morality of Selective Termination

      • Walter Glannon

      Pages 91-109

4. Part III

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-113

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   2. On a Woman’s Obligation to Have an Abortion

      • Bambi E. S. Robinson

      Pages 115-137

   3. The Just Claims of Dyslexic Children

      • Richard T. Hull

      Pages 139-151

5. Back Matter

   Pages 153-157

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In Reproduction, Technology, and Rights, philosophers and ethicists debate the central moral issues and problems raised by today's revolution in reproductive technology. Leading issues discussed include the ethics of paternal obligations to children, the place of in vitro fertilization in the allocation of health care resources, and the ethical implications of such new technologies as blastomere separation and cloning. Also considered are how parents and society should respond to knowledge gained from prenatal testing and whether or not the right to abort should relieve men of the duty to support unwanted children.

Reproduction, Technology, and Rights illuminates the moral and ethical choices that our society faces because of advances in reproductive technology and helps to make those decisions better informed.

• Embryo
• ethics
• health
• morality
• reproduction

This is a good book that offers a friendly, secular approach to the ethical debates over abortion, assisted conception and prenatal diagnosis. The book achieves its purpose well...-Canadian Medical Association Journal

• Department of Philosophy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA

  James M. Humber

• Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA

  Robert F. Almeder

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