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Made-to-Order Embryos for Sale — A Brave New World?

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  • I. Glenn Cohen, J.D.,
  • and Eli Y. Adashi, M.D.

The authors discuss the ethical and legal dimensions of the production and sale of human embryos to infertile couples. They conclude that although aspects of this practice are troublesome, it is not fundamentally different from the sale of unfertilized eggs and sperm.

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Funding and Disclosures

Disclosure forms provided by the authors are available with the full text of this article at NEJM.org.

This article was published on April 10, 2013, at NEJM.org.

We thank Sean Driscoll for research assistance.

Author Affiliations

From Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA (I.G.C.); and the Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI (E.Y.A.).

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