Created by Bhavi Mistry
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Question | Answer |
Main role for reproductive medicine | Help ensure safety and health of mother and baby Assist women who wish to terminate a pregnancy Provide info about the foetus |
Four approaches: Reproductive choice | Procreative autonomy and reproductive autonomy (liberal); Interests of the child (assisted reproduction); Social/state interest (influence on makeup of future society); Respecting life (pro-life) |
Abortion | Intential termination of a pregnancy resulting in the death of a foetus |
Abortion law | Foetus is not a person and has no legal rights, these are only acquired at birth |
Abortion act | Abort if: Pregnancy is not >24 weeks If pregnancy is harmful to mother/impose threat to her life If unborn child will have severe abnormalities |
Lifestyle in pregnancy law | Civil liability act: Women will not be held legally liable for damage they cause to their unborn child |
Forced c sections | Interests of foetus not normally precedent Unborn foetus - no legal status |
ART (assisted reproductive technology) | HFE act: Reproductive cloning illegal, regulates human embryos outside body (research permitted to 14 days) |
Donor insemination | Both sperm and eggs can be donated Criteria (physical, ethnic, irrelevance) Anonimity is removed |
Surrogacy | commercial - criminal offence Child's legal mother will be the carrying mother unless cor proceedings are carried out Acceptable if commissioning mother is unable to carry a child |
HRA art 12 | Negative right (non-interference), Positive right (claim) "men and women...have the right to marry and to found a family..." |
Prenatal screening and diagnosis | Chorionic Villus Sampling, Ultrasound, Amniocentesis |
Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) | HFE act: can test if abnormality will affect chance of live birth, CANNOT implant abnormal embryo if others are normal |
Sex selection | Banned unless done to avoid sex linked abnormality |
Saviour siblings | Pre-implantation tissue typing is possible |
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