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Cleveland State University

1989

Abortion

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Fetal Tissue Transplantation: Regulating The Medical Hope For The Future, Jacquelyn F. Sedlak Jan 1989

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 …