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R Alta Charo

Publications and source records attributed to R Alta Charo.

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PubMed2004

Passing on the right: conservative bioethics is closer than it appears.

Like automobiles in the passenger side mirror, conservative bioethics is closer than it appears, and it has joined forces with the neo-conservative movement's rejection of moral relativism and moral pluralism. Leon Kass and about half of the current bioethics council appointed by President Bush form an interlocking world of journals, conferences, presidential advisors and, most notably, bioethics commission staff, all working to promote and extend federal regulation of public morals in the name of preserving real and romanticized societal norms in the face of social evolution wrought by technological change.

Advisory Committees↗
PubMed2002

Children by choice: reproductive technologies and the boundaries of personal autonomy.

Unlike other countries that regulate assisted reproduction, the US has largely left this field to the domain of professional self-regulation and market preferences. The reason lies both in the confused jurisprudence of reproductive liberty and the paralysing effect of the abortion debate on US politics. The debate surrounding cloning, however, has galvanized both activists and the government to revisit the question of regulation, and recent cases in the US Supreme Court suggest that if the political will to regulate this field is found, governmental authority to intervene in areas such as pre-implantation diagnosis, gamete donation and surrogacy might well be upheld, even in the face of constitutional challenges.

Abortion, Induced↗
PubMed1997

The clone age.

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Cloning, Organism↗
PubMed1993

Life after Casey: the view from Rehnquist's Potemkin Village.

The U.S. Supreme Court's most recent pronouncement on abortion rights [Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey] resembles the dieter's dilemma: one knows exactly how to get where one is going but lacks the willpower to follow through. In an opinion filled with exceptionally progressive, equality-based arguments for reproductive freedom, the Court nonetheless manages to back away from its own ineluctably drawn conclusions. In the end it not only ignores its own best arguments but eviscerates its previous analyses of fundamental rights and judicial protection of personal liberties from the excesses of the polity.

Abortion, Induced↗
PubMed1993

Effect of the Human Genome Initiative on women's rights and reproductive decisions.

The Human Genome Project is likely to exacerbate historic tendencies to balance demographic concerns on the backs of women. This kind of policy is unjustified in law and violates classic theories of justice. Reproductive decision making, which affects women personally, is not the legitimate domain of community concern or manipulation.

Abortion, Eugenic↗
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Realbioethik.

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Bioethical Issues↗
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Wars of petition.

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Cloning, Organism↗