Family-Making: Contemporary Ethical Challenges
By Francoise Baylis and Carolyn McLeod | Oxford University Press | 2014
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This book discusses the ethics of making families with children via adoption or assisted reproductive technologies.
Excerpt from a review by Vida Panitch, Associate Professor at Carleton University:
The editors set out to canvas the moral terrain of nontraditional family making, or family making through adoption and/or assisted reproductive technology (ART). And they have brought together papers that shed important light on the various contemporary ethical challenges that couples and individuals face depending on the manner in which they choose to welcome children into their lives. Of equal interest to Baylis and McLeod are questions regarding the duties of parents as well the duties of the state with respect to families formed via ART and adoption. Discussions as to the unique values and duties associated with families forged by these means are counterbalanced with papers on the permissibility (or necessity) of regulative state policies on everything from parental licensing, to anonymous gamete donation, to contract pregnancy.
For more by Françoise Baylis, read:
- Gene Editing Technology: Where Should We Draw the Line? (Oct. 24, 2017)
- Canada’s Prohibition on Altering the Human Genome (Oct. 2, 2017)
- Genome Editing of Human Embryos Broadens Ethics Discussion (Oct. 1, 2017)
- Human Gene Editing: We Should All Have A Say (Aug. 1, 2017)
- The Ethics of In Vitro Gametogenesis (May 19, 2017)
- Human Germline Genome Editing: An ‘Impressive’ Sleight of Hand? (Feb. 17, 2017)
- Human Gene Editing: A Global Discussion ((Feb. 12, 2016)
- A Cautious Approach to Mitochondrial Replacement (Feb. 3, 2016)
- The Truth About Mitochondrial Replacement (Feb. 23, 2015)