FRHD 1020 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Combined Oral Contraceptive Pill, Feticide, Baby Farming

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 1020
• Professor: Olga Sutherland

Document Summary

Changes in law: until july 1, 1969, contraception was illegal in canada; under the 1892. Social and ethical issues: attitudes in society range from condemning all such technologies as unnatural to accepting them wholeheartedly as progress. Contracts: since 2004, surrogacy in canada has been regulated, the assisted human reproduction act provided national guidelines for many new reproductive techniques, including surrogacy. Ivf be available for women over 55 years old: the questions multiply, and answering them will involve ethical, social, and legal principles, one guiding principle is that it is essential to protect family relationships, especially those involving children. The royal commission on new reproductive technologies and the assisted human. November 1993: its major conclusions were that unethical use of reproductive technologies should not be permitted and that regulations were needed to protect all individuals involved, as well as society as a whole. 12: canada now has a fragmented, province-by-province approach to the regulation of assisted human reproduction.