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There are other contexts in which the Constitution offers little guidance: in genetic engineering, in the issues of the right to die and the right to life. At a time when doctors can perform surgery on a fetus before delivery, when exactly does the law consider that life has begun? Does that fetus have constitutional rights? What is death? Who has the right to be alive, and who has the right to choose death...
...Vatican, too, raised a storm last March when it issued a document calling for legal restraints on medical manipulation of human birth, including in vitro fertilization, surrogate motherhood and termination of flawed fetuses. Moral traditionalists of all faiths cheered. Biomedical science, they claimed, must not intrude on natural life processes. But many liberals sided with Michigan Lawyer Noel Keane, a pioneer in arranging surrogate agreements, who reportedly declared, "I think the church is a little out of touch with reality." The document has prompted serious debate, but so far it has moved the country no closer to a consensus...
...Supporters of surrogacy insists that a surrogate contract is no different from any other. You give me $10,000, I'll give you a baby. Think about that. You give me $10,000, I'll give you a baby. Most contracts make allowances, even, for the abortion of the fetus if it is medically imperfect; no one, after all, wants to buy defective merchandise. The surrogate mother promises "not to form or attempt to form a parent-child relationship." The baby, remember, is not her. The surrogate, say supporters, is selling not the baby, really...
...syndrome. At the very least, they say, such examination will reveal if the child's condition is hereditary and will enable parents to evaluate the risk of having another affected child. Fragile X can also be diagnosed prenatally by means of amniocentesis. But doctors cannot yet determine whether the fetus will be affected or simply be a carrier...
Last week a municipal judge in Santa Ana dismissed the ticket after Yasger, now eight months pregnant, reminded the court that California's child-support law considers a fetus to be a child. She cited the case of Pamela Rae Stewart, a San Diego mother accused of harming her unborn son by taking illegal drugs and ignoring her doctor's instructions. Judge Randell Wilkinson threw out the * ticket rather than rule on the legal status of a fetus. Yasger, who has two other children, felt vindicated. "I was very serious about it," she said, "but I definitely...