"Controlling Our Reproductive Destiny" covers today's revolution in
reproduction-controlling and reproduction-aiding technologies. It focuses on the
ways in which science can now provide real procreative choices, while at the
same time giving equal treatment to ethical, legal, and social dimensions of
these advances.Introductory chapters discuss procreative options, present an
ethical and legal framework for evaluating reproduction-controlling and
reproduction-aiding technologies, and describe the human reproductive system.
Kaplan and Tong then present in detail methods of contraception (including new
contraceptive ideas for both women and men), sterilization, abortion, fertility
and infertility, artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization and embryo
transfer, and contracted motherhood. Throughout, they provide a comprehensive
and integrated discussion of the