Embryonic Policies: The Stunted Development of In Vitro Fertilization in the United States, 1975-1992

Title:	Embryonic Policies: The Stunted Development of In Vitro Fertilization in the United States, 1975-1992
Author:	McKenna, Erin Nicole
Description:	The federal government’s failure to fund research on in vitro fertilization has had an important legacy and significant consequences in the United States. Due to the dismantling of the Ethics Advisory Board in 1980, no government funding was provided for research for in vitro fertilization (IVF), embryo transfer (ET), and gamete intra-fallopian transfer (GIFT). The lack of government funding, regulation, and involvement has resulted in the false advertising of higher success rates to lure patients into the infertility specialists’ offices. In their desperation to have children, consumers of such medical technologies paid exorbitant fees that often remained uncovered by insurance companies. The federal government enacted legislation in 1992 attempting to alleviate some of the aspects of exploitation of the consumer-patient. The government’s recognition of the importance of such procedures was hit and miss, though, much like the reproductive technology itself. The legacy is one that has resulted in American citizens who now turn to developing countries such as Israel and India, where the treatment is drastically cheaper and often more effective.
Permanent Link:	http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1143490658 http://hdl.handle.net/2374.OX/15416
Date:	2006

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