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Gamete Regulation and Family Protection in a Post-Dobbs World

By Courtney G. Joslin

Increasing numbers of people are forming families through assisted reproduction. Recently, there has been a push to impose new regulations on various aspects of this process. Some of these new laws open up participants to a range of possible penalties — civil, criminal, and/or professional discipline — for past “misconduct.” Other laws seek proactively to regulate the fertility care process. For example, some laws regulate the collection and dissemination of medical and identifying information about gamete providers — that is, sperm and egg donors. Other proposals seek to require gamete providers to agree to the release of their medical records.

It is surely important to assess and evaluate fertility care practices and to consider whether additional regulation is appropriate in this space. Particularly in the post-Dobbs era — an era marked by increasing attacks on reproductive health care (including access to IVF) and on LGBTQ people — it is also important to proceed cautiously and to consider how these proposals may adversely impact reproductive autonomy and family recognition.

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Tomorrow: Global Reproduction

pregnant_bellyGlobal Reproduction: Health, Law, and Human Rights in Surrogacy and Egg Donation
November 5, 2014, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Wasserstein Hall, Room 1010, Harvard Law School

Please join us for a screening of the documentary Can We See the Baby Bump, Please?, followed by a panel discussion of the legal and human rights issues surrounding surrogacy and egg donation in a global context.

The film screening will begin at 5PM; the panel discussion will begin at 6PM.  Feel free to join for one or both segments. The panelists are:

We encourage attendees to read Risk Disclosure and the Recruitment of Oocyte Donors: Are Advertisers Telling the Full Story? prior to the event.

Co-sponsored by Our Bodies, Ourselves and the South Asia Institute at Harvard University, with support by the Oswald DeN. Cammann Fund.

Upcoming Event: Global Reproduction

pregnant_bellyGlobal Reproduction: Health, Law, and Human Rights in Surrogacy and Egg Donation
November 5, 2014, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Wasserstein Hall, Room 1010, Harvard Law School

Please join us for a screening of the documentary Can We See the Baby Bump, Please?, followed by a panel discussion of the legal and human rights issues surrounding surrogacy and egg donation in a global context.

The film screening will begin at 5PM; the panel discussion will begin at 6PM.  Feel free to join for one or both segments. The panelists are:

We encourage attendees to read Risk Disclosure and the Recruitment of Oocyte Donors: Are Advertisers Telling the Full Story? prior to the event.

Co-sponsored by Our Bodies, Ourselves and the South Asia Institute at Harvard University, with support by the Oswald DeN. Cammann Fund.