Professor at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law and author of “Genetic Dilemmas: Reproductive Technology, Parental Choices, and Children’s Futures”
The New England Journal of Medicine has printed the story of an ethical dilemma that doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital grappled with back in 2008. Is it ethical to keep a brain-dead patient on life support to harvest her eggs, in the hopes of allowing her husband to still father her child?