A Critical Feminist Analysis of the Final Report of the Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies

Abstract

Proceed with Care: The Final Report of the Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies is one of a series of official studies that have appeared in a number of jurisdictions since the beginning of the 1980s addressing medically assisted human reproduction. These reports are a product of uncertainties and conflicts in the governance of human reproduction at the present time and pose the classic questions of governance: how to use power to improve national well being, what ends to seek; what evils to avoid; what means to use and what is the nature of the persons upon whom they act.