Book contents
- Fertility Counseling: Clinical Guide
- Fertility Counseling: Clinical Guide
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Contributors
- I Introduction
- II Therapeutic Approaches
- III Third Party Reproduction: Assessment and Preparation
- IV Addressing the Needs of Diverse Populations
- V Special Topics in Fertility Counseling
- VI Practice Issues
- Chapter 25 Telemental Health in Fertility Counseling
- Chapter 26 Nuts and Bolts of Fertility Counseling
- Chapter 27 Ethical Platform of Assisted Reproduction
- The International Glossary on Infertility and Fertility Care, 2017
- Index
- References
Chapter 27 - Ethical Platform of Assisted Reproduction
from VI - Practice Issues
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 November 2022
- Fertility Counseling: Clinical Guide
- Fertility Counseling: Clinical Guide
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Contributors
- I Introduction
- II Therapeutic Approaches
- III Third Party Reproduction: Assessment and Preparation
- IV Addressing the Needs of Diverse Populations
- V Special Topics in Fertility Counseling
- VI Practice Issues
- Chapter 25 Telemental Health in Fertility Counseling
- Chapter 26 Nuts and Bolts of Fertility Counseling
- Chapter 27 Ethical Platform of Assisted Reproduction
- The International Glossary on Infertility and Fertility Care, 2017
- Index
- References
Summary
Patients who were once unable to have a child without assistance and patients wishing to have a child with desired traits are now eagerly seeking increasingly complex reproductive plans. These plans commonly involve multifaceted ethical concerns that may not be apparent to patients. The clinicians involved in patient care, including the medical team and mental health professionals, while beholden to reproductive ethics, may vary in terms of their perceptiveness of ethical concerns, their working constructs of medical ethics, and their comfort with addressing ethical concerns. This chapter endeavors to increase the clinician’s depth of understanding and skill in navigating and balancing reproductive ethical principles. In an examination of the core constructs of reproductive ethics, the chapter provides nuance on autonomy and challenges the reach of reproductive liberty.The perspectives of virtue ethics, including parental obligation to the child, feminist ethics, care-based ethics, and communitarian ethics are introduced.Finally, a seven-step decision-making process for considering and addressing ethical concerns is provided.
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- Fertility Counseling: Clinical Guide , pp. 274 - 281Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022