Health Sciences 2610F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Fetal Viability, Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis, Negative And Positive Rights
14 Jul 2016
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Roe v. wade (1973) recognized a constitutional right of women and their doctors to end pregnancies substantially free from state restrictions o. But states could prohibit abortions beyond the point of fetal viability. Pre-viable fetus is not a person as defined by the fourteenth amendment does not have the same right to life as persons are generally guaranteed by the constitution. In countries that practice common law (e. g. , u. k. and canada), only those born alive are legal persons: gives women broader reproductive rights over their bodies. The development of assisted reproductive technologies introduced a new set of biomedical, legal, and ethical issues o. In vitro fertilization (ivf) has enabled many couples to have children when they were unable to do so through natural biological means. A woman was artificially inseminated using the sperm of a man who, with his wife, contracted the woman to have a child for them.
