Abstract

Abstract Modem fertility treatments are miraculous. By offering children to the childless, they replace despair with euphoria. Yet even the simplest of these treatments can pose risks to future children. Failure to screen sperm donors, for example, can make artificial insemination unnecessarily dangerous. And high doses of ovulationinducing drugs can greatly increase the risk of a multiple pregnancy and the complications that accompany it. Today imminent reproductive techniques, like human cloning and germ-line genetic engineering, are believed to pose the risk of injuries so frequent and so serious that some respected experts call for their complete prohibition.

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