Informed Consent Autonomous authorization of a medical invention or involvement in research based on substantial understanding. Contributed by: AAAS/DoSER Search for Informed Consent

excess embryos to others. Informed consent requires that the woman or couple, with substantial understanding and without controlling influences, authorize the use of their spare embryos for research purposes. Because assisted reproduction can be

of Genetic Information: Informed Consent DG began collecting DNA samples in 1996 Informed consent is used to obtain this information DG currently has this genetic information from approximately 10,000

usually drawn-out process, informed consent should be secured in two stages. Like the model of organ procurement protocols, the consent process should also maintain a separation between personnel working with the woman or couple desiring to get

and, following that, their informed consent to its possible use in research can be secured. Workers in clinics or others who disaggregate embryos in order to prepare immortalized ES cell lines may be accused of wrongful conduct by those who

may do with them, aside from informed consent . Or if on the other end of the spectrum we assign to them the full value of a human person, then we may do nothing with them that we cannot do to a person, which means effectively that we may

benefits and requiring informed and voluntary consent. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has the authority under the Public Health Service Act and the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to regulate the development and use of human stem cells

or couples provide fully informed consent , but not that they share in the financial profit. The removal of the profit motive at this stage of harvesting will be ethically helpful, because it avoids treating fertilized ova and fetuses as