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The global market of assisted reproductive technology (ART) offers new potential for reproduction, but at the same time opens a Pandora's box by confronting states with cross-border reproductive care (CBRC) side effects. Literature on CBRC raises the adverse consequences associated with mixing the commercial and the intimate in different institutional, cultural, social, and national settings. The absence of any international or global regulations for governing CBRC has left each state to address the impacts and their attendant costs by themselves. Analyzed through the theoretical lens of vulnerability, I suggest instituting an international regulatory network based on a quasi-public entity analogous to the United Nations, combined with widening the scope of statutory legislation of ART to include full coverage, broadening accessibility to ART, and improving safety and quality standards that should be contemplated with social capital provided by communities and groups to enhance individuals' coping capacities. Keywords: Assisted Reproduction, Regulation, Vulnerability, Comparative Policy, Infertility, ART Policy, Reproductive Tourism, Globalization, Health Care, Bioethics. El mercado global de Tratamientos de Reproduccion Asistida (TRA) ofrece un nuevo potencial para la reproduccion, pero al mismo tiempo abre una caja de Pandora al confrontar a los estados con efectos colaterales de la reproduccion transfronteriza. La literatura de la reproduccion transfronteriza plantea las consecuencias asociadas con la mezcla de intereses comerciales e intimos en diferentes entornos institucionales, culturales, sociales y nacionales. La ausencia de regulaciones internacionales o globales para gobernar la reproduccion transfronteriza ha dejado que cada estado enfrente los impactos ycostos por si mismo. Analizado desde la perspectiva teoretica de la vulnerabilidad, propongo la institucion de un sistema regulatorio internacional basado en una entidad cuasi publica analoga a la ONU, combinada con la ampliacion de la legislacion en Tratamientos de Reproduccion Asistida, aumentar el acceso a TRA, y mejorar los estandares de seguridad y calidad que deberian ser contemplados con el capital social provisto por grupos y comunidades para mejorar las capacidades de afrontamiento de los individuos., And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children or else I die. --Genesis 30: 1 Infertile people [...]

Contemporary technological developments undermine the core pillars defining the human self, under the emergence of cyborgs and super-empowered individuals. The pre-determined boundaries between humans and machines may turn obsolete with the consolidation of the new hybrid humanity. This may foster an innovative approach to the traditional understanding of human ethics and the establishment of cyborg norms and regulations. In this article, the primordial nexus between cyborg ethics and the eugenics movement is further analyzed, hence as enhancing catalysators of mankind. Moreover, the article raises an ethical decision-making diagram, in which the normative cyborgs debate is framed in terms of positive and negative eugenic regimes. This analysis aims at providing a clearer understanding of cyborg-related ethical decision-making and the ways it magnifies eugenic features. As technological components become an inherent part of the human body, the international community should adhere to reshaping the notion of cyborg ethics and its ethical and regulatory implications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to contribute to the ongoing debate over population politics and the perceived reinvigoration of eugenic practices in 'people's home' countries. The ability of governments to subsidize genetic technologies or familial lifestyle choices also gives them the ability to choose who has access to these technologies and in so doing the ability to favor the procreation of one group over another. The authors suggest that such subsidization is used under the guise of productivist strategies by nations interested first and foremost in preserving their ethno-national identity. Although these countries, adhering to liberal democratic economics, profess to reward productivity, there seems to be more than a coincidental relationship between the 'productive' and the ethnic national stock. The authors use as a case study a comparison between Israel and Sweden to show how such eugenic strategies arose over time in people's home countries that synthesized productivism and national welfare. They suggest that genetics today is just as prone to being used for purposes of social engineering in welfare states and results in exclusion of individuals and communities. Indeed, as the authors demonstrate, welfare states provide generous benefits such as reproductive technology and child allowances to members of their national stock, at the same time hardly providing benefits to those who do not have share in ethnic membership.

Recent studies on disaster resilience policies focus on government and administrative shortcomings that prevent affected communities from improving their life circumstances. This article offers to break this cycle of disadvantage through greater utilization of community capacity building among disaster-affected groups that meet social justice principles in various regional settings. It is suggested that the central role of public administration is raised in developing empathetic relationships and facilitating collaborative action and a more resilient outcome. For this purpose, the author addresses an alternative model of disaster administration that follows a community-driven resilience process aimed at fostering well-informed, competent, and active participant communities. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This article adds to the debate on ethical issues surrounding public administration practice by an analysis of integrating partialities into impartial moral reasoning under two formalized theories of social justice. Such ethical deliberation takes a closer than usual look at the moral complexity of public administration practices of partiality. The validity of adopting partiality as a possible principle to guide ethical decision making in public administration will be examined within the broader theories of social justice and how it conforms to social justice criteria. The article concludes by showing how new ethical ordering of partiality and impartiality, supplemented by Walzer’s spherical justice, provides a systematic method for considering partialities in public administration decision making. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]