Main description:

Relevant to students, academics and practitioners across the globe, this original volume highlights contemporary issues associated with assisted reproduction and embryology and critically analyzes the law surrounding human reproduction in the light of case law and technological developments since the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act (HFE Act) Act was passed in 1990.

Tackling issues from an interdisciplinary perspective, the authors identify and evaluate areas that have provoked intense public and academic debate as well as those where further or renewed regulation is needed. Focusing primarily on the legal and ethical issues involved in regulating this area in the UK, which is at the forefront of developing legislation in this area, this book has international relevance as many countries have used the UK as a model for their own legislation.

This text is suitable for a broad range of readers, including legal academics, law students and practitioners interested in the areas of medical/healthcare law and ethics, bioethics and moral philosophy, family law, sociology and reproductive medicine and genetics.

Contents:

1. The Quest for a Perfect Child: How Far Should the Law Intervene? 2. Conceptions of Welfare 3. Rethinking the Pre-conception Welfare Principle 4. Paying Gamete Donors Does not Wrong the Future Child 5. Unforeseen Uses of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis: Ethical and Legal Issues 6. Equality of Access to NHS-funded IVF Treatment in England and Wales 7. Parenting Genetically Unrelated Children: A Comparison of Embryo Donation and Adoption 8. Unconsidered Inconsistencies: Parenthood and Assisted Conception 9. Beyond Genetic and Gestational Dualities: Surrogacy Agreements, Legal Parenthood and Choice in Family Formation 10. Beyond Health and Disability: Rethinking the 'Foetal Abnormality' Ground in Abortion Law 11. The Abortion Debate Today