Abstract
Intergenerational justice does not require increased government regulation of reproductive technologies in the United States. Arguments tarring reproductive technologies as unnatural or immoral fail to withstand close scrutiny, and moreover ignore competing moral concerns like the liberty and equality of people to form families in different ways, as well as the interests of children born via assisted reproduction in having their families recognized just as coitally conceived children’s families are recognized. Embryo markets, in contrast, might present different challenges, requiring a separate analysis of their potential impact on intergenerational justice.
Acknowledgments
Thanks are due to the University of Maryland Carey Law School for providing generous research support, its librarians, especially Susan Herrick, for providing able research support, and Gila Stopler, Pamela Lauffer-Ukele, Shelly Levy-Kreiczer, and the participants at the College for Law and Business conference on “Intergenerational Justice” for helpful comments on a related paper I presented there.
Note:
This essay further develops ideas published in a chapter titled The Upside of Baby Markets in Baby Markets (Michele Goodwin ed., 2009), published by Cambridge University Press.
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