Thoughts on Biotech and Choice
Posted by Marcy Darnovsky July 19, 2007
Biopolitical Times
Sam Berger, soon-to-be-former research assistant with the Progressive Bioethics Initiative at the Center for American Progress, has written a thoughtful piece on the "novel challenge" for pro-choice progressives presented by human biotechnologies. Berger concludes:
Progressives, then, will need a new way to distinguish what reproductive technologies and practices should be regulated....Whether we like it or not, some reproductive decisions are becoming matters of societal interest, and we need to be clear on where we think society should draw the line. In order to maintain existing protections for reproductive choices we view as self-regarding and personal, we need to delineate clearly which of them require oversight and which do not.