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The Infertility (Medical Procedures) Act 1984: A New Dimension of Legal Regulation?
Author(s) -
Corns Christopher Thomas
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
australian journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1839-4655
pISSN - 0157-6321
DOI - 10.1002/j.1839-4655.1986.tb00825.x
Subject(s) - legislation , infertility , project commissioning , medical law , dimension (graph theory) , law , publishing , political science , law and economics , sociology , biology , genetics , pregnancy , mathematics , pure mathematics
Recent legislation governing the practice of In‐Vitro Fertilization indicates that the traditional regulatory role of the law has significantly expanded. This article examines implications arising from the Victorian Infertility (Medical Procedures) Act 1984 and specifically, the extent to which the law can now regulate the genetic composition of human beings.