Ethics and New Reproductive Technologies: An International Review of Committee Statements

Walters examines the statements of advisory committees in eight on new practices involving human reproduction: clinical in vitro; surrogate motherhood; and human embryo research. He analyzes positions taken by the committees on the general acceptability of the new, as well as on specific issues involved in assisted human. In chronological order, the statements examined are those of U.S. Ethics Advisory Board; the Waller committee in Victoria, Australia; a Australian committee; the Demack committee in Queensland; Britain's for Science and Society; Britain's Warnock committee; a Tasmania,, committee; the Ontario Law Reform Commission; Australia's Family Council; West Germany's Benda committee; the American Fertility Society; a Australia committee; the Dutch Health Council; and the National Ethics of France. (KIE abstract)