Parks J A
Department of Philosophy, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont.
CMAJ. 1996 Apr 15;154(8):1189-91.
Although reproductive technologies have been aimed at young, infertile women, evidence suggests that postmenopausal women are also taking advantage of them. Dr. Eike-Henner Kluge asserts in an article in CMAJ (1994; 151; 353-355) that there are ethical reasons to deny older women access to these technologies. Kluge's comparison of postmenopausal women to prepubescent girls is fallacious. His assertion that older parents harm children by denying them a "normal" childhood is not supported by any empiric data. Kluge's distinction between medical intervention, in offering reproductive technologies to a woman in her reproductive years, and "improving on nature", by offering these technologies to postmenopausal a woman is spurious. Unless technologies that are expensive and minimally successful, such as in-vitro fertilization, are denied to everyone, there are no grounds for denying them to postmenopausal women.
尽管生殖技术一直面向年轻的不孕女性，但有证据表明绝经后女性也在利用这些技术。艾克 - 亨纳·克卢格博士在《加拿大医学协会杂志》（1994年；151卷；353 - 355页）的一篇文章中声称，有伦理理由拒绝老年女性使用这些技术。克卢格将绝经后女性与青春期前女孩作比较是错误的。他声称年长的父母剥夺孩子“正常”童年会伤害孩子，但这一说法没有任何实证数据支持。克卢格区分在育龄女性中提供生殖技术的医学干预和在绝经后女性中提供这些技术的“逆天而为”是站不住脚的。除非像体外受精这种昂贵且成功率极低的技术被所有人拒绝使用，否则就没有理由拒绝绝经后女性使用。
