Regulating reproduction: The problem with best interests

Minnesota Law Review

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 423-519

  Cohen, I Glenn ^a  

^a HARVARD LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

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2. See also June Carbone & Naomi Cahn, Which Ties Bind? Redefining the Parent-Child Relationship in an Age of Genetic Certainty, 11 WM. & MARY BILL RTS. J. 1011, 1022 (2003)
3. Marsha Garrison, Is Consent Necessary? An Evaluation of the Emerging Law of Cohabitant Obligation, 52 UCLA L. REV. 815, 861-65 (2005) (claiming that detriments to offspring of having single parents persist even when income is controlled for).
4. Holly J. Harlow, Paternalism Without Paternity: Discrimination Against Single Women Seeking Artificial Insemination by Donor, 6 S. CAL. REV. L. & WOMEN'S STUD. 173
5. See I. Glenn Cohen, The Constitution and the Rights Not to Procreate, 60 STAN. L. REV. 1135, 1140-41 (2008) [hereinafter Cohen, Constitution]; I.
6. Glenn Cohen, The Right Not to Be a Genetic Parent?, 81 S. CAL. L. REV. 1115
7. I. Glenn Cohen, Beyond Best Interests, 96 MINN. L. REV. (forthcoming Apr. 2012).
8. See, e.g., id. at 85-87; Bernadette Modell & Aamra Darr, Genetic Counselling and Customary Consanguineous Marriage, 3 NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS 225 (2002).
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10. See Rachel Anne Fenton, Catholic Doctrine Versus Women's Rights: The New Italian Law On Assisted Reproduction, 14 MED. L. REV. 73, 73, (2006).
11. See Infertility Treatment Act 1995, (Vict.) s 8 (Austl.), available at http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/vic/hist-act/ita1995264.pdf
12. Human Reproductive Technology Act 1991, (W. Austl.) ss 4, 23(c), available at http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/wa/consol-act/hrta1991331/s4. html (section 4)
13. http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/wa/consol-act/hrta1991331/s23.html (section 23)
14. Reproductive Technology Act 1988, (S. Austl.) ss 10(b), 13(3)(b), available at http://www.legislation.sa.gov.au/LZ/C/A/ASSISTED%20REPRODUCTIVE%20T REATMENT%20ACT%201988/2000.07.05-%281996.08.01%29/1988.10.PDF.
15. Radhika Rao, Equal Liberty: Assisted Reproductive Technology And Reproductive Equality, 76 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 1457, 1474 (2008)
16. Patrick Roger, Blocage Sur L'adoption Par Les Couples Homosexuels [Ban on Adoption by Homosexual Couples], LE MONDE (Fr.), Jan. 27, 2006, at 21, available at http://www.apgl.fr/presse/lemonde20060126-2.pdf
17. ACT NO. 55/1996 ON ARTIFICIAL IMPREGNATION AND THE USE OF HUMAN SEX CELLS AND EMBRYOS FOR STEM CELL RESEARCH (ICELAND 1996), available at http://www.althingi.is/dba-bin/unds.pl?txti=/wwwtext/html/lagasofn/138b/1996055. html&leito=t%E6knifrj%F3vgun#word1 (translation courtesy of Sigridur Rut Juliusdottir).
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20. Marsha Garrison, Regulating Reproduction, 76 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 1623, 1627 (2008).
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22. Michelle Dennison, Revealing Your Sources: The Case for Non-Anonymous Gamete Donation, 21 J.L. & HEALTH 1, 8 (2008) (citing Gottlieb, supra note 114).
23. I. Glenn Cohen, Note, The Price of Everything, the Value of Nothing: Reframing the Commodification Debate, 117 HARV. L. REV. 689, 689-90 (2003).
24. Kenneth Baum, Golden Eggs: Towards the Rational Regulation of Oo-cyte Donation, BYU L. REV. 107, 156 (2001).
25. See, e.g., Leon R. Kass, The Wisdom of Repugnance, in THE ETHICS OF HUMAN CLONING 3, 17-24 (Leon R. Kass & James Q. Wilson eds., 1998).
26. See Kimberly Kessler Ferzan, Beyond Crime and Commitment: Justifying Liberty Deprivations of the Dangerous and Responsible, 96 MINN. L. REV. 141, 152 (2011) (explaining the practice of, and theory behind, preventative criminalization).
27. Eric Rakowski, Who Should Pay for Bad Genes, 90 CALIF. L. REV. 1345, 1387 (2002)