Abstract
Fertility services are the only area of medicine in which health professionals are required by law to make social judgements about a person’s suitability for treatment. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act of 1990 imposes restrictions on access to licensed fertility treatment based on social judgements about the probable welfare of any resulting child. In this paper, it is argued that just as social judgements are inappropriate in other contexts, so they are in the context of fertility treatment. Furthermore, the ambiguous requirement for concern for the welfare of the resulting child simply does not provide a just and ethically defensible solution to the problem of access to licensed fertility treatment.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 18-21 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Human Fertility |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1999 |