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27 Hofstra L. Rev. 649 (1998-1999)
How Reprogenetics Will Transform the American Family

handle is hein.journals/hoflr27 and id is 659 raw text is: HOW REPROGENETICS WILL TRANSFORM THE AMERICAN FAMILY Lee M. Silver* INTRODUCTION Incredible advances in reproductive technology continue to offer people new options for having babies that were inconceivable just a few short years ago Men once classified as sterile because they were un- able to produce sperm can now become biological fathers with the use of nuclear injection into the unfertilized eggs of their partners.2 Post- menopausal women of any age, unable to produce their own eggs, can use donor eggs and hormone treatment to become pregnant and give birth.3 Even more exotic possibilities for reproduction have already been demonstrated in other mammalian species and will soon be applied to humans as well. These include protocols that allow two women to have a baby together by embryo fusion,4 and somatic cell nuclear transfer techniques that will allow infertile couples and individuals to have mo- noparental biological children! Indeed, our current understanding and technological prowess over the process of human reproduction is so ex- tensive that it will soon be possible for any one or two people, of any sex or age, to have monoparental or biparental children. For reasons to be discussed below, these expanding reproductive horizons are scaring the daylights out of some people. * Professor, Departments of Molecular Biology, Ecology, and Evolutionary Biology, Prin- ceton University. 1. See generally LEE M. SILVER, REMAKING EDEN: How GENETIC ENGINEERING AND CLONING WILL TRANSFORM THE AMERICAN FAMILY (1998) (discussing genetic and physiologic technologies in regard to human reproduction). 2. See id. at 160. 3. See id. at 225-26. 4. See id. at 206-22. 5. See id. at 137-41.

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