Child-rearing ability and the provision of fertility services: a committee opinion

Ethics Committee of American Society for Reproductive Medicine

doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2013.02.023

Child-rearing ability and the provision of fertility services: a committee opinion

Fertil Steril. 2013 Jul;100(1):50-3. doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2013.02.023. Epub 2013 Mar 5.

Author

Ethics Committee of American Society for Reproductive Medicine¹

Collaborators

Ethics Committee of American Society for Reproductive Medicine:
Paula Amato, Robert Brzyski, Jean Benward, Andrea Stein, Bonnie Steinbock, Bruce Wilder, Leslie Francis, Richard Reindollar, John Robertson, Judith Daar, Senait Fisseha, Steven Ralston, Mark Sauer, Monique Spillman, Robert Rebar, Sean Tipton

Affiliation

¹ American Society for Reproductive Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama 35216, USA.

PMID: 23481278
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2013.02.023

Abstract

Fertility programs may withhold services when there are reasonable grounds for thinking that patients will not provide adequate child-rearing to offspring. This document was reviewed and updated and this version replaces the previous version of this document, reviewed in June 2009 (Fertil Steril 2009;92:864-7).

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Child
Child Rearing*
Ethics Committees / ethics*
Ethics Committees / standards
Female
Humans
Infertility / psychology
Infertility / therapy*
Reproductive Techniques, Assisted / ethics*
Reproductive Techniques, Assisted / standards
Societies, Medical / ethics*
United States