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palmd | February 5, 2009Reproductive ethics is a field I'm not all that familiar with, but it's been a big deal lately, so I've been thinking about it a bit. The American Society for Reproductive Medicine has a few broadsheets on ethics, which are actually rather helpful. Reproductive medicine is a great field for looking at ethical problems. Let's examine two of them to learn something about the ethics of the field (and of course, about ourselves as well):
Parental factors, that is, facts about the parents, may be important in reproductive medicine. When doctors become part of the reproductive process, someone…