Introduction: Introducing Innovation into Practice: Technical and Ethical Analyses of PGD and ICSI Technologies

See generally U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, American Society for Reproductive Medicine, Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology, and RESOLVE, 1995 Assisted Reproductive Technology Success Rates, National Summary and Fertility Clinic Reports (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Vols. 1–3, Dec. 1997) [henceforth Assisted Reproductive Technology].

See generally Tasca R.J. McClure M.E. , “The Emerging Technology and Application of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis,” Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 26 (1998): 7–16.

See Assisted Reproductive Technology, supra note 1, at 11.

See Cummins J. , Reproduction, “ICSI May Foster Birth Defects,” Journal of NIH Research, 9, no. 2 (1997): 34, 36, 38, 40; and Tournaye H. Van Steirteghem A. , Reproduction, “ICSI Concerns Do Not Outweigh Its Benefits,” Journal of NIH Research, 9, no. 2 (1997): 35, 37, 39, 40. Compare to Van Steirteghem A. , “Ethical Considerations of Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection,” in Shenfield F. Sureau C. , eds., Ethical Dilemmas in Assisted Reproduction (London: Parthenon Press, Studies in Profertility Series, Vol. 7, 1997): 51–56.

See Bonduelle M. , “Mental Development of 201 ICSI Children at 2 Years of Age,” Lancet, 351 (1998): 1553; and Bowen J.R. , “Medical and Developmental Outcome at 1 Year from Children Conceived by Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection,” Lancet, 351 (1998): 1529–34.

See Milliez J. Sureau C. , “Pre-Implantation Diagnosis and the Eugenics Debate: Our Responsibility to Future Generations,” in Shenfield Sureau , supra note 4, at 57–66.

New York State Task Force on Life and the Law, Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Analysis and Recommendations for Public Policy (New York: New York State Task Force on Life and the Law, Apr. 1998): At xiv.

See Steirteghem Van , supra note 4.

See generally Schatten G. , “Cell and Molecular Biological Challenges of ICSI: ART Before Science?,” Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 26 (1998): 29–37.

See generally Botkin J.R. , “Ethical Issues and Practical Problems in Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis,” Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 26 (1998): 17–28.