@article{1480307,
      recid = {1480307},
      author = {Cahn, Naomi R., },
      title = {Test Tube Families : Why the Fertility Market Needs Legal  Regulation /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {The birth of the first test tube baby in 1978 focused  attention on the sweeping advances in assisted reproductive  technology (ART), which is now a multi-billion-dollar  business in the United States. Sperm and eggs are bought  and sold in a market that has few barriers to its  skyrocketing growth. While ART has been an invaluable gift  to thousands of people, creating new families, the use of  someone else's genetic material raises complex legal and  public policy issues that touch on technological anxiety,  eugenics, reproductive autonomy, identity, and family  structure. How should the use of gametic material be  regulated? Should recipients be able to choose the "best"  sperm and eggs? Should a child ever be able to discover the  identity of her gamete donor? Who can claim parental  rights?Naomi R. Cahn explores these issues and many more in  Test Tube Families, noting that although such questions are  fundamental to the new reproductive technologies, there are  few definitive answers currently provided by the law,  ethics, or cultural norms. As a new generation of "donor  kids" comes of age, Cahn calls for better regulation of  ART, exhorting legal and policy-making communities to cease  applying piecemeal laws and instead create legislation that  sustains the fertility industry while simultaneously  protecting the interests of donors, recipients, and the  children that result from successful transfers.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1480307},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814716823.001.0001},
}