Baby M, the Surrogacy Contract, and the Health Care Professional: Unanswered Questions

Baby M, the surrogacy contract, and the health care professional: unanswered questions.

The Baby M case 1 has forced us to take sides in the public debate over surrogate motherhood. Last year, advocates of this form of noncoital reproduction praised the New Jersey trial court for supporting the freedom to contract for such "womb renting" services, while critics warned that enforcement of such surrogacy contracts would condone the sale of babies and the exploitation of women as bab...

Privacy, surrogacy, and the Baby M case.

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Paediatrics-based fetal care: unanswered ethical questions.

1.Department of Radiology, Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA 2.Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities, and History of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA 3.Kennedy Institute of Ethics and Department of Philosophy, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA 4.Center for Practical Bioethics, Kansas City, MO, U...

The Key Questions Remain Unanswered

First, we described an illustrative notional planning magnitude for each threat based on a stylized threat and risk assessment, while noting that a more comprehensive threat and risk assessments could reveal that these illustrative magnitudes were either too high or too low. Our illustrative threat assessments relied on historical data revealing observed frequencies and consequences of each thr...

E-Learning: some unanswered questions