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Alternative Reproduction Biotechnologies, Moral and Ethical Concerns

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within such a context. Bibliography lists 5 sources. BWaltrepr.rtf Ethical and Moral Issues in Alternative Reproductive Biotechnologies By:  C.B. Rodgers - November 2001 -- for more information on using this paper properly! Introduction The first thing the student writing about alternative reproductive  biotechnologies, other than the fact that they have received an enormous amount of media and political attention, is that there are meaningful ethical and moral framework that may be applied  in the context of such procedures. The entire issue of human reproduction, when not the result of the most common processes of sexual intercourse, gestation, and birth, is one that  has always received a great deal of attention and criticism. Placing the issue within certain ethical "constraints" may serve to help define certain aspects of the reproductive biotechnologies for a  large segment of both the professional and general publics. Changing Ways of "Having" a Baby The advent of new birth technologies has raised a multitude of questions on societys  concept of the family and the individual. The infamous case of "Baby M," for example, raised the issue of whether the model of individual contracts can be applied to social  relationships. Such a controversial case and others like it have shown the world how a contract can be negated by undeniable biological realities such as mother-child bonding (Fox 14). Traditional  legal presumption has generally and obviously granted parental rights to a childs biological mother. But such a presumption seems at least questionable when the biological mother differs from the  intended mother. As a result, courts employing traditional constitutional and family law doctrines have not adequately sorted out the claims of biological, gestational, and intended parents. For example, there are