Fertility and Sterility
Volume 92, Issue 3 , Pages 864-867, September 2009

Child-rearing ability and the provision of fertility services

  • The Ethics Committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine

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    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence: The Ethics Committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, 1209 Montgomery Highway, Birmingham, AL 35216.

American Society for Reproductive Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama

published online 05 August 2009.

Reviewed June 2009

Fertility programs may withhold services when there are reasonable grounds for thinking that patients will not provide adequate child-rearing to offspring but are not obligated to do so. This document was reviewed in June 2009 and while no changes were made, this version does replace the previous version of this document, published in September 2004.

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PII: S0015-0282(09)02474-1

doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.07.978

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 92, Issue 3 , Pages 864-867, September 2009