Reproductive Ethics

Clemmitt, Marcia. "Reproductive Ethics." CQ Researcher May 15, 2009. Nadya Suleman, an unemployed, 33-year-old, single mother from Southern California, felt her six children weren't enough. Last January, after a fertility doctor implanted six embryos she had frozen earlier, Suleman gave birth to octuplets — and was quickly dubbed “Octomom.” Many fertility experts were shocked that a doctor would depart so far from medical guidelines — which recommend implantation of only one, or at most two, embryos for a woman of Suleman's relatively young age. Although multiple births often do result from in vitro fertilization (IVF) and other assisted-reproduction technologies, the number of multiples has dropped over the past few years, they point out. Other analysts note, however, that government statistics show a large percentage of clinics frequently ignore the guidelines on embryo implantation. In response, lawmakers in several states have introduced proposals to increase regulation of fertility clinics. From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press. Clemmitt, Marcia. "Reproductive Ethics: Should fertility medicine be regulated more tightly?" CQ Researcher. 15 May 2009.

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