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Bioethics in the United Kingdom and Ireland: 1991–1993

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Bioethics Yearbook

Part of the book series: Bioethics Yearbook ((BIYB,volume 4))

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Reproductive technology may have brought us to the customs house of human history. There, it must be decided what we are taking with us, what we are prepared to pay, and what we will abandon in order to enter the new fiefdom of biotechnological behavior. A bridge is being crossed for which there is no return ticket, and on which there is no duty-free zone. In the period under review, three examples stand out to illustrate this. First is the possibility, recently explored, of recovering oocytes from newly dead women. It is as though reproductive medical specialists have become the customs officers at the reproductive warehouse, a new factor in the internal market, in which there is the realization that dying women may be exporting reproductive contraband that by stealthy tracking could be impounded.

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Greaves, D., Evans, M., Jarvis, R., Morgan, D., Pickering, N. (1995). Bioethics in the United Kingdom and Ireland: 1991–1993. In: Lustig, B.A. (eds) Bioethics Yearbook. Bioethics Yearbook, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0197-4_5

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