Test Tube Families : : Why the Fertility Market Needs Legal Regulation / / Naomi R. Cahn.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Cahn, Naomi R.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction --; Part I. Initial Conceptions --; 1. The Treatment Plan for Legal Issues --; 2. The Treatment Plan for Creating Babies --; Part II. The State of ART --; 3. Market Regulation --; 4. Parenting Regulation --; 5. Donating to Parenthood --; 6. Donor Identity --; Part III. Race, Class, and Gender: Who Benefits? --; 7. Barriers to Conception --; 8. Expensive Dreams --; 9. What Is Wrong with Technology? --; Part IV. Baby Steps Forward --; 10. Baby Steps --; 11. Five-Parent Families? --; 12. Finding Out --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Index --; About the Author
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780814790021; 9783110706444
• DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814716823.001.0001
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Naomi R. Cahn.

The birth of the first test tube baby in 1978 focused attention on the sweeping advances in assisted reproductive technology (ART), which is now a multi-billion-dollar business in the United States. Sperm and eggs are bought and sold in a market that has few barriers to its skyrocketing growth. While ART has been an invaluable gift to thousands of people, creating new families, the use of someone else’s genetic material raises complex legal and public policy issues that touch on technological anxiety, eugenics, reproductive autonomy, identity, and family structure. How should the use of gametic material be regulated? Should recipients be able to choose the “best” sperm and eggs? Should a child ever be able to discover the identity of her gamete donor? Who can claim parental rights?Naomi R. Cahn explores these issues and many more in Test Tube Families, noting that although such questions are fundamental to the new reproductive technologies, there are few definitive answers currently provided by the law, ethics, or cultural norms. As a new generation of "donor kids" comes of age, Cahn calls for better regulation of ART, exhorting legal and policy-making communities to cease applying piecemeal laws and instead create legislation that sustains the fertility industry while simultaneously protecting the interests of donors, recipients, and the children that result from successful transfers.