Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1992
ISSN
0028-4793
Publisher
Massachusetts Medical Society
Language
en-US
Abstract
Sometimes (although not often) new forms of medical technology raise unique legal and social-policy issues that require new laws. In vitro fertilization, followed by the transfer of the embryo to a woman who did not contribute the ovum, is such a technique, because when the child's gestational mother is not the child's genetic mother, society must decide which is the child's legal mother. A California Court of Appeal, the first appellate court anywhere in the world to rule on this issue, decided in late 1991 that genes determine motherhood.
Recommended Citation
George J. Annas,
Using Genes to Define Motherhood - The California Solution
,
in
326
New England Journal of Medicine
417
(1992).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/1244
Comments
From The New England Journal of Medicine, George J. Annas, Using Genes to Define Motherhood - The California Solution, Volume 326, Page 417 Copyright ©(1992) Massachusetts Medical Society. Reprinted with permission.