These criticisms, however, like all the others, excoriate the technologies for their individual focus and failure to address the social causes of infertility without providing any possibilities for infertile people. With the new reproductive technologies, women are being used as living laboratories and are slowly but surely being divorced from control over procreation. Infertile people are no more or less responsible than the rest of the population for campaigning for a healthier environment or sterility prevention. Conclusion Like many aspects of life in the contemporary United States, reproductive technologies are a mixed blessing. There seems no point in simply opposing them, since they are here to stay.
Reproductive technologies have the potential to change radically the nature of family and kinship.
As feminists, we should seek to expand women's access to these technologies, to regulate the provision of services, and to build a social movement that addresses environmental causes of male and female sterility and infertility. 6-7, January 1995. Reprinted with kind permission from the copyright holder. No part of this text may be reprinted or disseminated beyond personal use without permission from the copyright holder.