ABSTRACT
The intensity and scope of the issues in human genetic intervention, reproductive technology, and biomedical intervention in the human life process severely challenge traditional values. The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, for instance, emphasizes the right to marry and found a family free from constraint, and it affords special care and assistance to motherhood. The potential impact on the human condition, and possibly on human nature itself, demands serious attention. The Issues concerning human existence and the role of medicine in furthering certain societal values have changed little over the last twenty-five centuries. In every society, few areas of human intervention are as sensitive or engender as much intense debate as those relating to human reproduction. A multitude of issues emerging from the "biological revolution" represent some of the most complex, intense, and urgent issues humankind has yet faced. Likewise, in the United States procreative rights are viewed as fundamental human rights.
