Topic in Focus: Reproductive Health

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Storage & Use of Human Embryos

Ethical concerns arise regarding who has authority to make decisions about stored embryos and what kinds of choices they may ethically make.

Ethics
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Third-Party Reproduction

Third-party reproduction is a form of assisted reproduction in which a woman agrees to bear a child and relinquish the child to other individuals to rear.

Ethics
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Therapeutic Donor Insemination

This procedure raises ethical considerations about safety for the woman and potential offspring, donor privacy, and the disposition of frozen semen.

Ethics
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Gamete Donation

Gamete donation raises ethical concerns about the privacy of donors and the nature of relationships among donors and children.

Ethics
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Assisted Reproductive Technology

Candor and respect are essential for ethical practice when using a protocol of assisted reproductive technology.

Ethics
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Genetic Testing for Reproductive Decision Making

Physicians may ethically provide genetic testing to inform reproductive decision making when the patient requests.

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Prenatal genetic carrier screening: How much do you know?

As prenatal genetic screening options expand, physicians face questions about which test is best for individual patients. A continuing medical education module tests your knowledge about new expanded carrier screening.

Population Care
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High court protects patients from unjustified government intrusion

The AMA applauds the Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt ruling, which protects patients from unjustified government intrusion in medicine.

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Ethics journal discusses tensions in reproductive medicine

In reproductive medicine, advances in medical science and technology often outpace society’s opportunity for due deliberation about their ethical use. Physicians and other experts in the field explore these ethical considerations in the October issue of Virtual Mentor, the AMA’s online ethics journal. ...

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