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Legal Dimensions Of Adolescent Sexuality, Roxanne Mykitiuk, Stephanie Turnham
Legal Dimensions Of Adolescent Sexuality, Roxanne Mykitiuk, Stephanie Turnham
Roxanne Mykitiuk
The ethical and legal obligations with respect to treating a minor can be confusing, particularly in the areas of consent to treatment, confidentiality, and parental involvement. The clinician must be aware of the appropriate course of practice when the patient is an adolescent seeking care for contraception, pregnancy, or sexually transmitted infections. This article examines a number of ethical and legal issues that arise when providing reproductive and sexual health care to an adolescent and offers recommendations for the physician’s most appropriate courses of action regarding adolescent patients and the age of consent to sexual activity, reporting of child abuse, …
The Canadian Assisted Human Reproduction Act: Protecting Women’S Health While Potentially Allowing Human Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer Into Non-Human Oocytes, Roxanne Mykitiuk, Jeff Nisker, Robyn Bluhm
The Canadian Assisted Human Reproduction Act: Protecting Women’S Health While Potentially Allowing Human Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer Into Non-Human Oocytes, Roxanne Mykitiuk, Jeff Nisker, Robyn Bluhm
Roxanne Mykitiuk
Caulfield and Bubela (2007) argue that the Canadian Assisted Human Reproduction Act (An Act Respecting Assisted Human Reproduction and Related Research (S.C. 2004, c.2) imposes a complete “criminal ban” on somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) that is unwarranted because, they contend, the ban was based on concerns regarding the moral status of the human embryo, which is inappropriate in a “pluralistic society.”