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Fetal Tissue Transplantation: Regulating The Medical Hope For The Future, Jacquelyn F. Sedlak
Fetal Tissue Transplantation: Regulating The Medical Hope For The Future, Jacquelyn F. Sedlak
Journal of Law and Health
While fetal tissue implants have the potential to offer relief to several million Americans, these two scenarios are examples of the many legal and ethical issues surrounding the technology. Currently, the use of fetal tissue is loosely regulated by an assortment of laws, many of which were enacted before the therapeutic use of fetal tissue was even conceived as a possibility. At the time many of the regulations governing fetal tissue use were developed, the primary goal of the regualtions was to prevent the exploitation and sale of aborted fetuses following the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade. Had …
A Unified Approach To Organ Donor Recruitment, Organ Procurement, And Distribution, David A. Peters
A Unified Approach To Organ Donor Recruitment, Organ Procurement, And Distribution, David A. Peters
Journal of Law and Health
This article initially demonstrates the falsity of each of these assumptions. Policy alternatives are then proposed to govern donor recruitment and the activities of organ procurement and distribution. These alternatives are consistent with the correct assumption on the issues mentioned, and appear to be politically feasible in the light of available empirical evidence.
Fetal Abuse: Culpable Behavior By Pregnant Women Or Parental Immunity, George P. Smith Ii
Fetal Abuse: Culpable Behavior By Pregnant Women Or Parental Immunity, George P. Smith Ii
Journal of Law and Health
The purpose of this essay is to demonstrate the pressing need of the law to take decisive action in imposing tort liability for willful and malicious conduct by drug addicted women during their pregnancy. Liability should be imposed notwithstanding the warnings from civil libertarians that the enforcement of such a policy would most assuredly give rise to "prenatal police patrols".
Active Voluntary Euthanasia: The Ultimate Act Of Care For The Dying, Deborah A. Wainey
Active Voluntary Euthanasia: The Ultimate Act Of Care For The Dying, Deborah A. Wainey
Cleveland State Law Review
This Note explores whether modern society can embrace the concept of euthanasia as "death without suffering" to the full extent of the term. Section II explores the distortion of the concept of euthanasia from an historical perspective. Section III provides insight into the practice of euthanasia in the Netherlands, the only country in the world which allows people to request and receive aid-in-dying, i.e., active euthanasia. Section IV reviews the American judicial and legislative response to the active euthanasia issue, and analyzes the Death With Dignity Act, a model law which would permit a terminally ill adult to request and …