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What would an environmentally sustainable reproductive technology industry look like?
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- Published on: 25 July 2014
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Honestly, this is one of the silliest articles I have ever read in the Journal of Medical Ethics. Apart from a host of other objections, I wonder if the author has investigated whether IVF actually raises the birth-rate, an essential consideration if she is to prove that the pitter- patter of little carbon footprints is environmentally unsustainable.
I suspect that the net effect of IVF is to depress the birth-ra...
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