White G B
Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress, Washington, D.C. 20510.
J Med Philos. 1989 Oct;14(5):575-85. doi: 10.1093/jmp/14.5.575.
A wide range of conflicting established moral viewpoints makes development of public policy related to infertility difficult. Where there are pluralities of viewpoints and no single established moral approach, uniform solutions are questionable. The Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), is a nonpartisan analytic support agency that serves the United States Congress by providing objective analyses of major public policy issues related to scientific and technological change. Because analysis of ethical issues is an important part of technology assessment, OTA included a thematic analysis of ethical issues in the report, Infertility: Medical and Social Choices. A consideration of whether infertility is a disease was an important conceptual starting point, and religious perspectives were reviewed as possible sources of moral and ethical insight.
大量相互冲突的既定道德观点使得制定与不孕症相关的公共政策变得困难。当存在多种观点且没有单一既定的道德方法时，统一的解决方案就值得怀疑。技术评估办公室（OTA）是一个无党派分析支持机构，通过对与科技变革相关的重大公共政策问题进行客观分析，为美国国会提供服务。由于伦理问题分析是技术评估的重要组成部分，OTA在《不孕症：医学与社会选择》报告中纳入了对伦理问题的专题分析。对不孕症是否为一种疾病的考量是一个重要的概念起点，并且对宗教观点作为道德和伦理见解的可能来源进行了审视。
