Boston.com:Europe is beginning to ban the transfer of more than two embryos into a woman and recommending the transfer of only one, according to Harvard Business School professor Debora Spar, who is leaving this summer to become president of Barnard College.
She would allow children produced by technology to be told their genetic parents' identity, after her research found that many want that information. Finally, she would treat infertility as a medical condition, meaning that health insurers would cover certain treatments while defining those that would not be paid for.
"The the reality is our society hasn't thought this through and [has allowed] the desire for children to steamroll" ethical considerations, said the Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, the Catholic bioethics center's director of education, who would like to see IVF outlawed, but knows that a generation after the first test-tube babies, no ban will be forthcoming. As a result, he supports Spar's proposed restrictions and regulations.
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