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PART FIVE - TENUOUS GROUNDS AND BABY TABOOS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2012

Edited by
Michele Bratcher Goodwin
Michele Bratcher Goodwin
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota
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Summary

A survey of in-vitro fertilisation clinics seeking recalled instances of serious morbidity and known fatalities revealed a wide variety of complications, including two deaths because of the accidental failure to deliver oxygen during general anaesthesia, visceral injuries during egg retrievals, pelvic abscesses, serious infections, five serious vascular complications (one with residual hemiplegia), torsion of the ovary, and cancers discovered during or after treatment.

– Sandra Coney, 345 Lancet 976 (1995)

In Part Five, the contributors consider whether we should give in to baby markets. Some of these exchanges are risky. High rates of multiple births, low success rates, and medical risks to women who use assisted reproductive technology (ART) demand a public response. Yet what the authors realize is that baby selling already exists, and we can either stand on the outside looking in or actively shape the regulatory future of the domain. The pitfalls and ethical challenges in the reproductive domain are discussed in earlier parts of this volume. Here the authors conclude the book by examining how the risky exchanges in ART should be handled and what giving in to baby markets really means.

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Baby Markets
Money and the New Politics of Creating Families
 , pp. 265 - 266
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010

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