Looking for Answers After a Mistake at the Start of Life. Avi Salzman.
by Salzman, Avi; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 16Family. Publisher: New York Times, 2004ISSN: 1522-3213;.Subject(s): Actions and defenses | Artificial insemination -- Human | Bioethics | Human reproductive technology | Infertility -- Treatment | Medical errorsDDC classification: 050 Summary: "If everything is going well inside the womb, Laura Howard's baby has a four-chambered heart now and is making its first real movements, opening its jaw and stretching. The baby is probably about two inches long, but it will soon have a growth spurt. Meanwhile, the baby's mother is in the middle of a storm, with wide-ranging legal and ethical ramifications. On May 14 [2004], Ms. Howard, who lives in Trumbull, was inseminated with the wrong man's sperm at the Infertility Institute in Bridgeport [Connecticut] by Dr. Anthony G. Santomauro. Though she said the doctor urged her to take a morning-after pill to prevent conception, she decided against it....Ms. Howard soon learned that she was pregnant, and although her fiance may still be the father of her child, she doubts that he is." (NEW YORK TIMES) This article reports on the legal and ethical issues raised by the insemination error and discusses the "vagueness of infertility law" in general.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Looking for Answers After a Mistake at the Start of Life, July 25, 2004; pp. n.p..
"If everything is going well inside the womb, Laura Howard's baby has a four-chambered heart now and is making its first real movements, opening its jaw and stretching. The baby is probably about two inches long, but it will soon have a growth spurt. Meanwhile, the baby's mother is in the middle of a storm, with wide-ranging legal and ethical ramifications. On May 14 [2004], Ms. Howard, who lives in Trumbull, was inseminated with the wrong man's sperm at the Infertility Institute in Bridgeport [Connecticut] by Dr. Anthony G. Santomauro. Though she said the doctor urged her to take a morning-after pill to prevent conception, she decided against it....Ms. Howard soon learned that she was pregnant, and although her fiance may still be the father of her child, she doubts that he is." (NEW YORK TIMES) This article reports on the legal and ethical issues raised by the insemination error and discusses the "vagueness of infertility law" in general.
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