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Ethical Issues in Human in Vitro Fertilization and Embryo Transfer

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My goal in this chapter is to survey the major ethical issues in human in vitro fertilization (IVF) and/or embryo transfer (ET)—both in the clinic and in the laboratory. More specifically, the chapter seeks to analyze six major alternative ethical positions on IVF and ET and to display the presupposition and the internal logic of each of these positions.

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  1. Center for Bioethics, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, USA

    LeRoy Walters Ph.D. (Director, Associate Professor)

  2. Department of Philosophy, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, 20057, USA

    LeRoy Walters Ph.D. (Director, Associate Professor)

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  1. Center for Human Genetics, Boston University School of Medicine, 80 East Concord Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02118, USA

    Aubrey Milunsky MB.B.Ch., D.Sc., F.R.C.P, D.C.H. (Professor of Pediatrics, Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Pathology, Director) (Professor of Pediatrics, Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Pathology, Director)

  2. Health Law Section, Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, 80 East Concord Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02118, USA

    George J. Annas J.D., M.P.H. (Edward Utley Professor of Health Law Chief) (Edward Utley Professor of Health Law Chief)

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Walters, L. (1985). Ethical Issues in Human in Vitro Fertilization and Embryo Transfer. In: Milunsky, A., Annas, G.J. (eds) Genetics and the Law III. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4952-5_16

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