HLTA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 23: Canada Health Act, Sex Selection, Infection
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Societal issues: ethical issues in human reproduction include: contraception, sterilization and abortion; care in childbirth; test tube babies, abortion was considered a violation of the canadian charter of rights and. Freedoms because it violated a woman"s human right to life and personal security. Policy reponses: federal minister of health declared voluntary moratorium on applying reproductive technology procedures regarding threat to human dignity and treating women as commodities, march 2004 an act respecting assisted human reproduction becoming law in canada. This act prohibits a number of unacceptable activities in canada: human cloning, germ-line alterations, payment of surrogates, payment of donors of egg, sperm or in vitro embryos, creating chimeras and using someone"s reproductive material without their consent. However, others not so fortunate: concern: transplantation consumes a large proportion of health care resources and benefits only a few. In 1994 oregon became the first state to pass a law allowing assisted suicide.
