A little something on Reproductive Law:
The ability to assist nature in creating a baby through technology has been around since the first successful animal insemination performed by
Spallanzani (1784). Such technical achievements as artificial insemination and in vitro fertilization have become routine in the 21st Century. Other research and technology such as traditional and gestational surrogacy in humans are now commonplace. The future of the science and technology involves mapping the human genome, genetic manipulation of sex
characteristics and disease, and cloning.
These breakthroughs raise significant Bio-Medical Ethics questions as do the associated issues of "selective reduction", abortion, stem cell research using fetal tissue, storage and disposal
of genetic materials. The law is slowly evolving to address some of these matters and their ethical moral, and religious implications. As the political and legal community addresses these
concerns the danger lies in throwing the baby out with the bath water. Great care must be taken to carefully erect the legal structure to preserve and protect the creation of life while simultaneously controlling its commercialization.
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