ABSTRACT
The equivocal feminist response to new reproductive technologies (NRTs) serves as both a deep critique and negotiation of the feminists who resist and those who embrace the NRTs. Equivocal feminists assert that while women have been subjugated collectively on the basis of bodily reproductive functions, they are differently affected according to their specific locations in ethnic, socio-economic, and other communities. The Canadian Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies shows that there is no simple formula for deciding which principles provide the feminist' criteria to judge which NRTs are acceptable. Margrit Eichler provides such as the leader of the group lobbying for a Canadian Coalition for a Royal Commission in the spring of 1987, providing criteria as regulatory guidelines for NRTs in the absence of federal legislation. The equivocal offer a feminist response to NRTs traceable to Marxist/socialist principles, especially class analysis and historical materialism as a methodology and wor.
