Expectant Fathers, Abortion, and Embryos

Purvis, Dara E.

doi:10.1111/jlme.12249

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“…The second main model is known as the balancing approach [13] (p.335), which is most frequently applied when no written agreement expresses the parties' wishes and expectations on contributing to IVF and embryo storage. The leading judgment on this model was delivered in 1992 by the Tennessee State Supreme Court, which, using the term “preembryo” to describe an unimplanted embryo, declared that:…”

Section: Rights To (Non‐)parenthoodmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A minor variant of the contractual model, which infrequently has to come to judicial resolution, is called the contemporaneous mutual consent model [13] (p.335). This arises when parties to an agreement later agree to vary its terms.…”

Section: Rights To (Non-)parenthoodmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the absence of controlling legislation, courts apply principles of their own, which usually follow one of two main models [13]. Whether or not laws require parties to IVF arrangements to specify in advance how stored embryos can be used, any such agreements the parties reach are likely to be enforced.…”

Section: Rights To (Non-)parenthoodmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The use and disposal of stored embryos

Dickens

2016

International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics

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Claims that human embryos are "human beings" or "persons" cannot be agreed, because philosophies and approaches differ, awarding them statuses from full human to property. In 1984, the UK (Warnock) Committee of Inquiry into Human Fertilisation and Embryology made recommendations that still offer legal and ethical guidance. It is widely agreed, for instance, that embryos created through in vitro fertilization (IVF) should not be transferred for reproductive purposes without relevant consent, whether for gamete donors' or others' family-building. A consequence of courts enforcing parties' IVF agreements on stored embryo use or balancing parties' competing interests is that one party-usually the male-can veto the other's use of the embryo for reproduction on termination of a partnership. The extent to which surplus IVF embryos can be donated for research ranges from prohibition to infertility treatment and more, but wider needs for embryology research are appearing that, despite prevailing bans, may require embryos for study created to genetic specifications.

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Section: Rights To (Non‐)parenthoodmentioning

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Section: Rights To (Non-)parenthoodmentioning

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The use and disposal of stored embryos

Dickens

2016

International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics

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“…1 Her thought-provoking essay contributes to a subject -men and reproductive decision-making -that is too little studied. I embrace her emphasis on respect for both men's equal role in parenting and women's right to decide whether to terminate or continue pregnancy.…”

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“…In "Expectant Fathers, Abortion, and Embryos," Dara Purvis considers the interests of "expectational fathers," as she calls them, in the related contexts of abortion and the disposition of pre-embryos in assisted reproductive technologies (ART). 1 Her thought-provoking essay contributes to a subject -men and reproductive decision-making -that is too little studied. I embrace her emphasis on respect for both men's equal role in parenting and women's right to decide whether to terminate or continue pregnancy.…”

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Respecting Intent and Dispelling Stereotypes by Reducing Unintended Pregnancy

Johnsen¹

2015

J. Law. Med. Ethics

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In "Expectant Fathers, Abortion, and Embryos," Dara Purvis evaluates the concepts of intent and gender stereotypes in connection with "expectational fathers" in the related contexts of abortion and assisted reproductive technologies. This comment seeks to build upon Purvis's own analysis to obviate her concern that abortion discourse promotes harmful stereotypes of men as disinterested fathers. To the contrary, for men — no less than for women — a desire to avoid or terminate pregnancy is fully consistent with loving and shared parenthood of existing or future children. The same individuals who choose to become parents at other times in their long reproductive lives will use contraception and have abortions. In fact, most women who have abortions already have children. Policies that empower men and women to avoid unintended pregnancy are the sensible, win-win, front-line approach to avoid disputes over abortion.

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A cross-cultural analysis of posthumous reproduction: The significance of the gender and margins-of-life perspectives

Hashiloni‐Dolev¹,

Schicktanz²

2017

Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online

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The scholarly discussion of posthumous reproduction (PHR) focuses on informed consent and the welfare of the future child, for the most part overlooking cultural differences between societies. Based on a cross-cultural comparison of legal and regulatory documents, analysis of pivotal cases and study of scholarly and media discussions in Israel and Germany, this paper analyses the relevant ethical and policy issues, and questions how cultural differences shape the practice of PHR. The findings challenge the common classifications of PHR by highlighting the gender perspective and adding brain-dead pregnant women to the debate. Based on this study’s findings, four neglected cultural factors affecting social attitudes towards PHR are identified: (i) the relationship between the pregnant woman and her future child; (ii) what constitutes the beginning of life; (iii) what constitutes dying; and (iv) the social agent(s) seeking to have the future child. The paper argues that PHR can be better understood by adding the gender and margins-of-life perspectives, and that future ethical and practical discussions of this issue could benefit from the criteria emerging from this cross-cultural analysis.

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Expectant Fathers, Abortion, and Embryos

Cited by 4 publications

References 8 publications

The use and disposal of stored embryos

The use and disposal of stored embryos

Respecting Intent and Dispelling Stereotypes by Reducing Unintended Pregnancy

A cross-cultural analysis of posthumous reproduction: The significance of the gender and margins-of-life perspectives

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