Ethical issues related to the new reproductive technologies

Society's attitudes about the importance of genetic affiliations, both within and outside the family structure, as well as its attitudes about the appropriate limits on eugenic practices, strongly influence how physicians and researchers approach ethical problems related to reproduction technology. Scientific advances require us constantly to reassess ethical values, as well as the effect of technology on ethical values, and vice versa. Physicians' personal ethics, as well as those of their colleagues, are an integral and important part of the physician-patient relationship, which is the foundation of sound clinical ethics.