At Science Progress, Marcy Darnovsky, associate executive director of the Center for Genetics and Society argues that in this age of OctoMom,
The fertility industry’s professional societies offer a potential avenue for self-regulation of the field, but their existing recommendations are too often ignored. Other countries regulate assisted reproduction to protect the well-being of all participants, including the children whom it helps create and the families and society into which they are born. Drawing lessons from their successes could help temper the commercial pressures in the U.S. assisted reproduction sector, without in any way diminishing reproductive rights.
Perhaps we need a new pair of lenses to see what other countries are doing on the other side of the Great Pond.
HT: Center for Genetics and Society.
