Throwing the Baby Out with the Amniotic Fluid: Not All Reproductive Choices are Morally or Legally Equivalent

Meyer, Michelle

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Throwing the Baby Out with the Amniotic Fluid: Not All Reproductive Choices are Morally or Legally Equivalent

Michelle N. Meyer

Harvard Law School

May 5, 2009

Science Progress, May 2009
Harvard Public Law Working Paper

Abstract:
This essay written for Science Progress, "the premier online journal of progressive science and technology policy from the Center for American Progress," which was listed as one the journal's "Top Features of 2009,” uses the case of Nadya Suleman (a.k.a. Octomom) to argue for disentangling the ethical and legal analysis of decisions to and not to procreate.

A companion paper, States’ Regulation of Assisted Reproductive Technologies: What Does the U.S. Constitution Allow?, is available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2127377. Two law review articles in progress, Rights To and Not To Procreate and Towards a Jurisprudence of Procreation, develop these ideas.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 5

Keywords: abortion, personhood, moral status, assisted reproductive technology, ARTs, in vitro fertilization, IVF, embryo transfer, reproduction

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Date posted: August 9, 2012

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Meyer, Michelle N., Throwing the Baby Out with the Amniotic Fluid: Not All Reproductive Choices are Morally or Legally Equivalent (May 5, 2009). Science Progress, May 2009; Harvard Public Law Working Paper. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2127286

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