Overview: Progress in biomedical science has called for an internationaldiscussion of the medical, ethical, and legal problems that confrontphysicians, medical researchers, infertile couples, pregnant women,and parents of premature or disabled infants. In addition, theunprecedented technological developments in obstetrical, perinatal,and neonatal medicine in recent years have indicated a need for aninternational forum for interdisciplinary dialogue regarding thedefinition of early human life, the neurological development of earlyhuman life, the value of early human life, the obligations for it
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