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Klappentext 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 frameworksynthesizes 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. Theauthor 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 issuearises. 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 extensivepre-market testing and closer post-market monitoring of new reproductive technologies. His moderate, pragmatic approach will be widely appreciated. Zusammenfassung This work offers a roadmap for determining when and how to regulate risky reproductive technologies on behalf of future children. It recommends a case-by-case method for reconciling the interests of future children with the reproductive liberty of prospective parents. Drawing lessons from case studies, it criticizes a lack of regulatory oversight. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction to the debate over risky technologies Part 1: The Interests of Future Children 2: Future people matter 3: Three ways in which reproductive contact can cause harm 4: The duty to use the safest procreative method available 5: Treatments too dangerous to use even as a last resort 6: Treatments that endanger embryos 7: Synthesis Part 2: Reconciling Conflicting Interests 8: Constructing a regulatory framework that respects parental liberty 9: An introduction to constitutional limits on the regulation of reproduction 10: Substantive due process doctrine 11: A critique of the "deeply rooted" test 12: The constitutional stature of reproductive technologies 13: The state's interest in protecting future children Part 3: Applying the framework 14: Intracytoplasmic sperm injection 15: Multiple pregnancy 16: Cloning 17: Germ-line genetic engineering 18: Conclusion ...
