Reproductive health and research ethics: Hot issues in Argentina

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 267-274

  Luna, Florencia ^a,b,c  

^a Intl Association of Bioethics

^b Argentinian Research Council   (Argentina)

^c Fac Latinoamericana Cie Sociales

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; ANENCEPHALUS; ARGENTINA; CONCEPTION; CONTRACEPTION; FERTILITY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PHYSICIAN; POLITICS; POPULATION RESEARCH; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; RELIGION; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; REVIEW; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA;

EID: 3142693929     PISSN: 09631801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0963180104133100     Document Type: Review

References (18)

1. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). Social Panorama of Latin America. Available at: http://www.eclac.cl.
2. Reporte Sombra on the Third Report by Argentina before the Human Rights Committee.
3. An example of the lack of respect of the accepted exceptions even within the more conservative framework is the dramatic case of a demented girl of 13 who had been raped but was denied an abortion in a public hospital.
4. Law 1,044.
5. Latin American Network for Assisted Reproduction. Consenso Latinoamericano en aspectos ético-legales relativos a las técnicas en reproducción asistida. Reñaca, Chile:; 1996:13-7.
6. Personal conversations with directors of Argentine fertility centers.
7. Luna F. Assisted reproductive technology in Latin America: some ethical and socio-cultural issues. In: Vayena E, Rowe P, Griffin D, ed. Current Practices and Controversies in Assisted Reproduction. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2002:31-41.
8. Jones H, Cohen J. Surveillance 1998. Fertility and Sterility 1999;71(6):S18.
9. Also at stake here is the physician's responsibility and the couple or woman who is denied rights. A number of thorny questions arise: Can we knowingly seek a pregnancy resulting in a handicapped or severely ill offspring? What are our responsibilities toward this future human being? Should we avoid bringing "evitable suffering" into the world?
10. For details, see: Luna F. Is "best proven" a useless criterion? Bioethics 2001;15(4):273-88.
11. World Medical Association. Declaration of Helsinki. Edinburgh, Scotland. Oct 2000:section 29 (emphasis added).
12. See note 10, Luna 2001.
13. Conselho Nacional de Saúde (Brazil). Resolucao N 301 (16 Mar 2000).
14. See note 10, Luna 2001.
15. Lurie P, Wolfe S. Request to the Department of Health and Human Services to halt plans for unethical placebo-controlled study of drug for respiratory distress syndrome in Latin America unless it is redesigned to treat all patients: HRG publication 1558. 22 Feb 2001. Available at: http://www.citizen. org/publications/release.cfm.
16. This drug is shown to reduce neonatal mortality by 34%. See note 15, Lurie, Wolfe 2001.
17. World Medical Association. Declaration of Helsinki: Note of clarification on placebo-controlled trials. Edinburgh, Scotland. October 2000 (emphasis added).
18. Levine R. The need to revise the Declaration of Helsinki. New England Journal of Medicine 1999;341(7):531-4.