The Right to Procreate: When Rights Claims Have Gone Wrong

This article begins by noting that the development and use of new reproductive technologies (NRTs) is often justified by appealing to the right to reproduce. The author finds that a right to procreate does not exist under Canadian law or international law. The author argues that legislators should not provide formal protection for such a right because it would be legally and morally problematic to do so. An examination is made of other procreative rights claims and of the concepts that underlie arguments about reproductive entitlement. [Descriptors: Reproductive Rights - Reproductive Freedom, International]