A Stalemate on Test-Tube Baby Research

Although the now-defunct Ethics Advisory Board of the Department of, Education, and Welfare concluded in 1979 that research on in vitro with embryo transfer was ethically acceptable, federal approval funding have not been forthcoming. Arguments over the moral status of the, the danger of abnormal fetuses, and the possibility of undesirable of research are the major reasons for the delay. While privately research has continued, the benefits of wide-scale, federally-funded have been delayed, and the costs to infertile couples are great. for breaking the stalemate are made, though quick action is unlikely. (KIE abstract)